CIVIL LIST DEBATE

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 445, 29 May 1937, Page 5

CIVIL LIST DEBATE

ROYALTY AND PEOPLE KINGSHIP THROUGH LABOUR EYES “No Hostilty To Idea Of Monarchy” (British Official Wireless'.) (Received 10.5 a.m.) Rugby, May 28. By 240 votes to 112 ithe House of Commons gave the second reading to the Civil List Bill, which provides for the Royal household. Mr Greenwood (Labour) said the British monarchy existed by the will of the British people and with the approval of the people of the Dominions, and w’as recognised as sym. tolising the fundamental unity of those peoples freely associated in the British Commonwealth of nations. Mr Greenwood believed kingship would gain in dignity by permitting it the privacy it did not now enjoy, and by destroying the barriers of splendour and display which stood between the King and the people. Mr Neville Chamberlain questioned the Labour assumption that a widespread feeling existed in favour pf simplification, but he suggested that insofar as that feeling was present the people would prefer simplification Ito oome from the King’s own inclination and natural disposition. “I do not take the Opposition motion as meaning any hostility to the Idea of a monarchy or of suggesting that it we have a monarchy it should not be kept up with due regain,” added Mr Chamberlain. "I take it that, dli.is for the purpose of placing on record the point of view which has been put forward in very moderate terms.”