CONFIDENCE MOTION.

Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 75, 30 March 1939, Page 11

CONFIDENCE MOTION.

House of Commons Behind Prime Minister. FIRM IN CRITICAL TIME. (Received 1.30 p.m.) • LONDON, March 29, Over 150 members of the House of Commons tabled an amendment to Mr. Anthony Eden's motion, tabled yesterday: "That the House affirms its complete confidence in the Prime Minister, Mr. Chamberlain, and deprecates any attempt at the present critical time to undermine the confidence of the House or the country in the Prime Minister and the Government." Two signatories to yesterday's motion have withdrawn. Mr. Eden's motion urged that a National Government should be formed with the widest possible basis and entrusted with full powers over the nation's industry, wealth and manpower to enable the country to put forward the maximum military effort in the shortest possible time. POLITICAL UNITY. British Necessity Urged By Mr. Duff Cooper. NATIONAL GOVERNMENT. RUGBY, March 29.* A plea for closer working between the political parties in the face of the menace of aggressor States was made in a speech yesterday by Mr. A. Duff Cooper. Referring to Signor Mussolini's speech he said that had such language been heard 10 years ago it would have provoked horror. The story that Herr Hitler wanted only to unite Germans in Germany had now been exposed and exploded by himself," with neither excuse nor apology. The time, therefore, had come for resistance. Mr. Duff Cooper said he thought war could still be avoided, but only by swift, rc«olute and united action. Referring to the need for political unity, he urged that the other parties should be asked to share in the task of a National Government. The sight of all parties rallying under one leader would have a heartening effect throughout the world. thought it desirable also to form a smaller body within the whole Cabinet in order, to secure rapidity of decision.