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Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 106, 31 October 1931, Page 6

"Tho decision on tho part of■ King George and of the members of his family," says tho "Daily Telegraph,", "disposes at ono happy stroke of any doubt' that might have remained as to the success of tho effort of financial-re-, storatiou to which the nation has ■been summoned. It places and establishes this great matter of economy and sacrifice whore it should be—outside and above politics, in the soronor atmosphere of a. people's resolve to riso to tho height of an emergency "involving both' its safety and its reputation."

The "Morning Post" says: "Thus oik.; more—sis in every national crisis —tho King lends-his people and shares their burden. It was His Majesty who brought Ministers and Opposition, to face together tho 'grave financial situation/ and he is Dot the sort of man

who points a way to others that he will not take himself."

The "Daily Mail" says: "The nation 'will be deeply stirred with gratitude and pride. The British Boyal Family has onec again given striking proof of that spirit of national service in which its members hold their high position in the State. His Majesty the King has come forward as the leader of his people along the path of self-sacrifico which every member of iho nation must be prepared to. take for tho salvation, of the country."

| "The Times" says; "No one can or I will wish to liieasuro tho excmplnry |worth of these contributions to Ilic national recovery by mere arithmetic. Yet it will not bo forgotten that they are made from resources already heavily —and voluntarily—strained and depleted during the War, and that they will bo effected at tho least possible cost to the nocessary dignity of State functions and to the livelihood of the servants of the Household. As in the war itself, the citizen is summoned to ask not whether his neighbour is doing as much as himself, but whether he is doing ac much as his neighbour—tho question on which a true democracy is founded. In this and much else that recalls the national triumph in the last groat emergency tho King's act is of hopeful augury. Tho present crisis has given another conspicuous proof of his disinterested wisdom and his sense of the common lot; and it is for every class of his subjects, as its turn comes, to prove itself as surely in grateful and emulous response."