NOT A YOUTH.

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 307, 11 December 1936, Page 5

NOT A YOUTH.

A Man Of Wide Experience. Press Association —Copyright. London, Dec. 10. In his statement in the Commons the Prime Minister said that the House must remember that His Majesty was not a boy though he looked so young. They had all thought of him as their Prince, but he was a mature man with a wide experience of life and of the world. “I have here something which will touch the House. I received a pencilled note from His Majesty this morning and have his authority to read it. It is just scribbled in pencil.” The Duke of York say's that the King tuns always been on the best of terms with his brother. As King, he is confident that the Duke deserves and will receive, the support of the whole Empire. The King had told him he could not carry on this almost intolerable burden of Kingship, without his woman al his side. Many efforts were made during the last few days to try to help the King to make the choice which lie had not made. Nothing had been left undone that could have been done to move him from the position from which he refused to move. While there was not a soul who would not regret this from the bottom of his heart, there was not a soul who wanted to judge.