MACDONALD'S COURAGEOUS STAND

Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 48, 25 August 1931, Page 9

MACDONALD'S COURAGEOUS STAND

DUTY TO NATION BEFOBE PARTY LOYALTY / SACRIFICE MEANT POLITICAL SUICIDE (l/nited Press Association—By Electric Telegraph— Copyright.) (Received 25th August, noon.) LONDON, 24th August. lhe "Sun-Herald" political writer says that Mr. Mac Donald's courageous stand enabled as much as anything a National Government to be formed. He realised on Friday night that Cabinet's fall was inevitable, and he knew that throwing over his colleagues meant, in his own words, "committing political sflicide." Mr. Snowden recognised that his fate was similar. Both accepted the consequences as a national duty, for which the nation is now honouring them. Mr. Mac Donald's break with his colleagues was also the climax Lo a long-exisling feud with Mr. Arthur Henderson, who throughout I lie' negotiations deserted the Premier. Mr. Henderson, Mr. A. V. Alexander, Mr. Tom Johnson, Mr. W. Graham, and other breakaway members of the late Cabinet intend to fight tooth and nail the dole cut issue at the election. ■-■. hich cannot long be delayed. Mr. Mac Donald's political career will end when the National Government concludes its work. Mr. Snowden retires at the end nf lhe year.