FEDERAL CABINET.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 8, 8 December 1936, Page 7

FEDERAL CABINET.

UNITED IN ATTITUDE

CANBERRA, Dec. 7. The Federal Cabinet met to-day and resumed discussions concerning the crisis. It was decided to await Mr Baldwin's statement in the House of Commons.

Ministers are reported to be perturbed at the suggestion that the Dominion Government had brought pressure on Mr Baldwin, and an official denial is given the suggestion that Australia had taken the initiative in placing its views before the British Government. It is, however, learned that the Prime Minister (Mr J. A. Lyons' informed Mr Bladwin some time ago of his own views on the matter, which were then strictly confidential, but only within the past few days has the subject been referred to Cabinet, which confirmed Mr Lyon's vie\vi>oint. Tho Prime Minister had occasion to rebuke Hon. W. M. Hughes (Minister of Health) for going to Sydney during the week-end. Mr Hughes also caused embarrassment to his colleagues by contributing an article in this morning's Sydney Morning Herald somewhat along the lines of Mr Winston Churchill's, giving the impression that he had been in direct communication with Mr Churchill. However, the situation was eased te-night when Mr Lyons announced that the Ministry was united, and Cabinet sat until the early hours of the morning awaiting Mr Baldwin's announcement which had already been conveyed to Mr Lyons by the British High' Commissioner (Sir Geoffrey Whiskard.)