THE KING’S CHOICE.

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 303, 7 December 1936, Page 5

THE KING’S CHOICE.

o- —— Between Self-will And SelfSacrifice. Press Association—Copyright. ’ ■ Loudon, Dec. 5. It is understood Mr Baldwin summoned this morning’s special Caibnet meeting to report the result of last night’s interview with the King, says the Daily Telegraph. According to the Morning Post further communications between Mr Baldwin and the King are expected to follow the meeting. The Daily' Herald’s political correspondent says the opinion of the Parliamentary Labour Party is steadily hardening in support of the view that the authority of Pai’.lament must be upheld against the King’s personal wishes.

The Daily Telegraph says that at least 90 per cent, of Labour members of the House of Commons are prepared to support Mr Attlee’s views. I “The choice before the King to-day is between self-will and self-sacrifice,” says the Morning Post. “We cannot believe the decision will be unworthy of the man or the occasion.” “You can’t smuggle the greatest living Englishman from the Throne during the week-end, which a concerted effort is being made to do,” said Lord Rotherinere. “I have just returned from a trip round the world, and wherever I went people of all nationalities expressed unstinted praise and admiration for the King. The present indecent haste is producing unpleasant rumours affecting high political and other personages.” The Sunday Dispatch says there is an uneasy feeling that Hie Cabinets’ tactlessness has forced The countrj’ into a false relationship 'With the King, and urges that the King should follow'the example of his father, who successfully composed critical questions of State by summoning outside advisers.

Lord Craigavon, after the conference with Mr Baldwin, told journalists; “1 have nothing to say; I trust Mr Baldwin.”