EDITORIAL OPINIONS

Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 15, 19 January 1933, Page 10

EDITORIAL OPINIONS

LOSS OF ME. STEWAKT

SERIOUS WEAKENING EFFECT

(By Telegraph.) ' (Special to "The Evening Post.") AUCKLAND, This Day In the course of its editorial on the National Ministry the "New Zealand Herald" states:— . "Only a grave conflict of opinions upon a major aspect' of policy would have impelled Mr. Downie Stewart to withdraw from Cabinet. None strove more persistently than he to establish the Coalition. He has laboured with equal devotion to defend it against the disruptive tendencies inherent in such political combinations, and ho has previously subordinated his own views on important matters of principle rather than weaken and embarrass tho Government by dissociating himself from it. For a man so conscientious and SO devoted to tW public interests there must be a limit to compromise upon issues which appear to him to be cf vital importance. The breach that has now occurred must, therefore, bo regarded, as evidence that tho Ministry contemplates venturing upon a course which Mr. Stewart could not follow without humiliating himself. Tho unwillingness of tho Prime Minister to comment upon the position suggests that the Government is not indifferent to. the gravity of the decision and of its consequences."