PRESS VIEW OF STATEMENTS

Press, Volume LXXVI, Issue 22921, 18 January 1940, Page 7

PRESS VIEW OF STATEMENTS

POLICY CHANGE NOT INDICATED COMPLAINT OF FAILURE TO GIVE REASONS (Received January 17, 11,30 p.m.) LONDON, January 16.

The press is agreed that Mr Chamberlain, in the recent Cabinet changes, subordinated all personal considerations to the needs of the hour, and the statements in the House of Commons are generally approved. There is, however, a complaint that the real reasonshave not'been disclosed. tt^= A typical comment on Mr HoreBelisha's statement « + that of The Times," Which says that hejW heard with the approval and respect due to a task well performed He made short work of recent attempts to dramatise the changes in terms of conspiracy and sabotage. The two statements clearly disprovedl the suggestion that any policy change was responsible for the. resignation of Mr Hore-Belisha. The "Daily Telegraph" expresses the" view that the cause WHS not Dollcy but a clash of temperaments. The "Manchester Guardian pays a tribute to Mr Hpre-Belisha's achievements, but suggests that he was lacking m tact.. ■ , . The "News-Chronicle,", which is the newspaper complaining of a lack of information,, describes the charitableness and goodfellowshlp of the debate in the House as giving it an unreal atmosphere. "What was the trouble?" ft wkfc "Mr Chamberlain approached the point, skirted round the point, but never came to the point. Ml that the country knows js ,that Mr HoreBelisha appeared to be too good for his job."