POLITICS IN BRITAIN

Feilding Star, Volume 8, Issue 2504, 24 August 1931, Page 8

POLITICS IN BRITAIN

TOWN EDITION

INTENSE INTEREST THE DENSE CROWDS BLOCK THE THOROUGHFARE (Aust. and N.Z. Cable) (Received August 24, 2.15 p.rn.) London, August 23. Not since the opening of tU« general strike some years ago have such crowds filled Downing Street as were presrmt to-day and to-night owing to the quickening 4 ji public, in. terest in the political position, cliieflv by tho King’s dash from Scotland to London. THERE IN THRONGS The precincts of Buckingham Palace throughout the day were also surrounded by people, while th<. are* in front of Whitehall and Downing Street never bad their normal Sunday quiet all day and night because of tho appearance of people who by the evening were in dense crowds. MINISTER HELD BACK Cabinet Minister had the greatest difficulty in elbowing their way to tho Premier’is residence, No. 10 Downing Street. Miss Bondficld, Minister of Labour, was held up by a constable and jits- not allowed pass until if. trats explained that ,lie, wag a member of the Cabinet. - ' CLEARING THE CROWD More police bad to be secured to handle the throng and it was eventually decided to take the unusual course of ch aring the whole street. FEELING IN FRANCE AGAINST LARGER PARTY Paris, August 23. Britain’s crisis excluded all other topics. Scant gyntpnty is felt for the T.ab. our. Government, which no Ft ouch party, excepting tho* socialists, ljas favoured, regarding its a - too ckaolx associated w-U-li the Seelond International (a Socialist body), and an interpreter of the foreign policy thereof. Moreover the average Fi-nehinai' believes that Britain’s flnaw-iat troubles aro due to tic concession* given to Germany. Nevertheless considerable anxiety is felt regarding a speedy solution, as for the weakening British credit ntay disastrously affect French truths and finance. MYSTERIOUS MOVEMENTS London, August, 23. Cabinet met at 7 o'clock to-night and Premier MacDonald left no lu Downing street, by the backdoor to visit the King at P 1 .15 a-.m. He remained less than half an hour at Buckingham Palace and returned to Downing Street, where l>e saw Sir Herbert Samuel, acting Its 1 ’ the Liberal Party during the illness of Mr Lloyd George. Cabinet dispersed from Down itm Street at 10.50 p.m.