NO CHANGE IN PRESENT CRISIS

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 302, 5 December 1936, Page 5

NO CHANGE IN PRESENT CRISIS

DOMINIONS SHOW GRAVE CONCERN IN MATTER MRS. SIMPSON NOT ACCEP TABLE TO BRITISH EMPIRE CONSTITUTIONAL PROBLEM REMAINS UNSOLVED AT PRESENT.

(Press Association—Copyright.) LONDON, December 4. ( •V Dramatic events continued to occur last night and to-day in the crisis which has arisen through the King’s desire to marry Mrs. Ernest Simpson, but the constitutional problem remains unsolved* The King will either renounce his marriage proposal, accept the resignation of the Cabinet and ask some leading politician .to form a new adminuLation, or abdicate in favour of the Duke-of York, says the News Chronicle. ■ *. -• ,c . . * ‘ ■ On high authority, the paper says, it is informed that His Majesty is prepared to accept the last-xiaxncd course if Parliament tary opinion remains as it is. Australia, New Zealand, Canada and South Africa have all moved in the matter, representing in the strongest terms the grave concern felt overseas regarding the circumstantial reports -of the King’s intentions, says the Daily Telegraph. The Dominions Governments have made it plainthat neither as Queen nor as a morganatic wife would Mrs. Simpson be accepted by the people* of the Dominions. They urged with great firmness U CO-«qi»l partners that steps should be taken to end a state of affairs which they considered dangerous from the viewpoint of Empire. Their action undoubtedly played a part in bringing about the present development. ■--- K W W Mrs. Simpson had a pasasge across theJChahnel to- Dunkirk booked for her, but it was cancelled at the last moment,,