GETTING TO WORK

Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 49, 26 August 1931, Page 9

GETTING TO WORK

EMERGENCY PLANS

ELECTION TO FOLLOW

(United Tress Association—By Electric Tele- j graph—Copyright.) j LONDON, 23th August, following the formation of a National Government with Mr. Ramsay MaeDonald at its head, the British crisis is I being solved with remarkable rapidity. j Seals of office should be exchanged on Wednesday at latest, when Cabinet immediately will get to work drafting its i emergency measures, which, will enable the Government to issue Orders-in-Coun-, eil. There is no time to prepare legislation couched in ordinary Parliamentary language, and practically no debate will be permissible in the coming session.

It should bo realised clearly that the National Government is in no sense a coalition. Mr. Stanley Baldwin is insistent on this. Ministers at the head of spending Departments will be excluded deliberately from the Cabinet, which is purely an economy body to make arbitrary decisions which arc binding on all Departments. As soon as a programme of retrenchment has been decided upon, the Budget balanced, and British credit abroad re-established, there will be a dissolution and an appeal to tho country on normal lines. A General Election w

unlikely until the India Round Table Conference rises in November, so Christmas ia the probable date. * THE NEW LABOUR LEADER. It is expected that Mr. Arthur Henderson will lead the Labour Party. He firmly ■ believes that the London bankers arc the villains of the piece, and attributes the crisis to their "bungling in insisting on a premature-return to the gold standard."

It is considered that tho new Government should be able to rely on 202 Conservatives and 55 Liberals, and, if Mr. MaeDonald's followers number SO, the Government will have a majority of

Mi'- Lloyd George will not join the National Government because his doctor is emphatic that he is not yet fit for the strain of active politics. The newspapers emphasise His Majesty's big part in the crisis and credit the successful formation of the National Cabinet to his efforts. Papers forecast the life of the Government as varying from sis weeks to six months.