LABOUR’S ATTITUDE.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 7, 7 December 1936, Page 7

LABOUR’S ATTITUDE.

FULL STATEMENT SOUGHT. ARCHBISHOP AT DOWNING STREET. Received December 7, 10.10 a.m. LONDON, Dec. G. Sir A. Sinclair, the Liberal Leader, called at Downing Street. The ear in which Mr Monckton travelled to London this morning returned to Fort Belvedere in tho afternoon with two occupants, who could not be identified. Members of the Labour Party complain that they are completely in the dark about the real facts. A meeting of flic executive is fixed for 2 p.m. tomorrow. In tho meantime Mr Attlee has been instructed to request Mr Baldwin to give him a lull statement of the position. He will put a series of questions to Mr Baldwin which the executive desires answered before the party’s final decision on tho issue. CROWD DEMONSTRATES. The Archbishop of Canterbury called at Downing Street as Sir A. Sinclair was departing. A man rushed up to the Arehibship’s car and shouted: “We want King Edward and his wife!” The Archbishop of Canterbury spent fifty minutes with Mr Baldwin, and when he was about to leave two women held up large notices: “Hands off our King. Abdication means Revolution!” Detectives hurried to the car and tho crowd took tho advantage and broke through tho police cordon, and filled the street. A woman who tried to walk along the street carrying a placard: “Hands off the King” was turned hack by the police and walked along Whitehall, the crowd following. BISHOP’S ADDRESS. The Bishop of Bradford told the Sunday Graphic: “When my address of December 1 was written i had no knowledge of the circumstances which subsequently have arisen. It was only yesterday week I heard Airs Simpson’s name mentioned in connection with the King.’s.” He added: My intention to make the speech was confirmed by Communists circulating in Yorkshire scurrilous yellow Press statements regarding the King and Airs Simpson, and I felt it high time to cut tho ground from under the feet of the Communists, who were aiming to create strife. The Scotsman, in an editorial, says: The proposed marriage would he incompatible with the dignity of the Crown. It might bring the King great happiness to which his subjects cannot he indifferent, but if that happiness were bought at the sacrifice of the people’s devotion and loyalty, the lowered prestige of the Crown, and the debasement of the herditai;y Monarchy it is too dear for the nation, if not for tho King. Considerable concern is felt in a number of trades and industries in the north. The manufacture of many thmisands of pounds’ worth of Coronation goods has been suspended. It is anticipated that manufacturers will lose heavily owing to the feared cancellation of orders