PRESS COMMENTS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 292, 10 December 1936, Page 7

PRESS COMMENTS.

KING'S PROPOSAL.

Considered Impracticable by Cabinet. MORGANATIC MARRIAGE PLAN LONDOX, December 9. "The Times" says in a leading article: "Tlie decision is for tlic King alone. No Cabinet proposal is before liim. He has proposed a certain course of action, and has been advised in constitutional form that it is impracticable. There is no reason to doubt that lie has accepted that advice. "The plan of a morganatic marriage is, therefore, abandoned, and what the King has been considering is whether he shall take any other action. To take none is to acquiesce in the failure of what is known to be his heart's desire; but no positive action has been suggested, except the one from which the whole Empire shrinks. "All his Ministers can do is answer such questions as the King may have put jn order that he may have the fullest possible understanding of the nature of the consequences of any action he may choose to take. It is no doubt deeply distressing to the Cabinet that they can do 110 more than this to help him; but in fact they can only wait while lie debates in his own conscience the issue of which tliey became aware less than a fortnight ago, but which he himself must have foreseen for a very much longer period."