BRITISH POLITICS

Manawatu Standard, Volume LI, Issue 207, 3 August 1931, Page 7

BRITISH POLITICS

LABOUR GOVERNMENT’S REGIME. EFFECT ON IMPERIAL SITUATION. MR BALDWIN’S VIEWS. (United Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) Received August 3, 10.0 a.m. LONDON,. Aug. 2. Declaring that Britain was not done for by a very long way, Mr Stanley Baldwin, in the course of an address he» delivered to his constituents, said that if the Government was determined to make a great effort to restore financial equilibrium it would have the support of the Opposition, but it was the. Government’s responsibility. He did not believe that the Labour Government would last another year. No Government would at present desire power.

“But one reason I am anxious for a change is the Imperial situation,” stated Mr Baldwin. “We lost our chance at the Imperial Conference, and now Australia and Canada are making an agreement. We don’t want that to go on too long with the Mother. Country left out. Otherwise we shall miss the bus.” STATUTE OF WESTMINSTER. RATIFYING RESOLUTIONS. (British Official Wireless.) Received August 3, 8.5 a.m. RUGBY, Aug. 1. Questioned as to which of the Dominions adopted the Statute of Westminster, agreed upon at last year’s Imperial Conference as a means of regularising constitutional relations, the Secretary for the Dominions said that, though formal communications had not yet been received in all cases, the position was that resolutions, in the sense of the recommendations of the Imperial Conference regarding tne proposed Statute of Westminster, had been passed by all the Dominion Parliaments. PARLIAMENT ADJOURNS. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, Aug. 1. Parliament rises to-day for the summer recess.

Mr Ramsay MacDonald’s motion for an adjournment until October 20 provides that, if it appeared to the satisfaction of the Speaker, after consultation with the Government, that the public interest required an earlier reassembly, the House of Commons should meet on a date to be fixed by the Speaker.