THE CONSTITUTIONAL CRISIS AT HOME

Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 63, 8 December 1936, Page 10

THE CONSTITUTIONAL CRISIS AT HOME

Decision With the King NEW ZEALAND CABINET’S DISCUSSION ■•There has been no change in the position,” said the Prime Minister, Rt. Hon. M. J. Savage, yesterday, after another Cabinet meeting to discuss the constitutional crisis in Great Britain. “We are expecting further information to-morrow from the British Government. “It is expected that the British Prime Minister, Mr. Stanley Baldwin, will make a statement in the House of Commons to-day (Monday in England). I would say that the latest indications suggest that the situation is less difficult.’ Of course, the decision at the moment rests with His Majesty the King. Until that is known there is nothing more that can be said. When the time comes for it the New Zealand Government will make a statement about the question as a whole and its attitude toward a difficult and very delicate question.” In reply to a question, Mr. Savage expressed the opinion that a general election in Great Britain over the crisis was unthinkable. “Why,” he said, “both sides would be discussing the same policy. Such a position would be farcical and merely nothing better than political confusion. Let us hope that the British Throne will never become the shuttlecock in a political fight.” It is gathered in Parliamentary circles that whatever may be the outcome of the constitutional crisis at Home there will lie no necessity for a general election in New Zealand or in any other of the self-governing Dominions.