The King's Decision
MR. BALDWIN TO MAKE STATEMENT
Dissipation of Rumour and False Impressions
(United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) (Received December 7, 1 p.m.) LONDON, December 6. Prayers for the King were offered in all churches on this wintry . Sunday, which was a day of puzzled expectancy pending the result of this evening's Cabinet meeting, at which, however, no decision was readied regarding the issue between the King and the Government. The Prime Minister will make a statement in the House of Commons tomorrow in order to dissipate rumours and false impressions. A Cabinet meeting called for tomorrow has been cancelled. Mr. Baldwin is remaining at Downing Street, and is not seeing the King tonight. The Australian Associated Press agency learns on the highest authority that a story published in a Sunday newspaper that the King had reached a decision and that the next step lay with Mr. Baldwin is only a clumsy guess. The position is still much as Mr. Baldwin outlined it in the House of Commons on Friday. The suggestion that the King is being hurried is equally unfounded, in view of tlie fact that his Majesty's only request for information related to the passage of a morganatic marriage law. The advice given in reply was as indicated by Mr. Baldwin. The King is being given all tlie time he requires to make up his mind, and Cabinet is awaiting his reply. There is no truth in repeated statements that his Majesty has rejected Cabinet's advice. All such conjectures are built up from Mr. Baldwin's frequent audiences with the King, wlpcii jt is explained have been purely informal. No other Government advice has been given, and therefore no constitutional crisis in the broad sense of the term exists and no conflict has arisen, unless Cabinet's reply to the question of morganatic marriage can be so described. This corrects Mr. Winston Churchill's statement on Friday, which Government circles feel is based on a complete misapprehension as to the relations between the King and the Government.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 137, 7 December 1936, Page 9
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337The King's Decision Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 137, 7 December 1936, Page 9
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