CONCERN IN CANADA

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

CONCERN IN CANADA

MR BALDWIN'S POLICY. ATTITUDE OF CHURCH. OUTSPOKEN CLERIC. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) . NEW YORK, Dec. 7. The Ottawa correspondent of the New York Times says that some Canadian editors are growing restive and people are beginning to ask whether Mr Baldwin has been using the Dominions to further his own purpose. Meanwhile Government experts are studying the constitutional question. They are uncertain whether the clause in the Statute of Westminster giving the Dominions a voice in the Royal succession will apply in the event of abdication, but there is no doubt at Ottawa that the Canadian Government will take its lead from Mr Baldwin.

The crisis was the subject of prayers and sermons in many parts of Canada. Bishop Manning, at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, asked for God's support Vmd guidance, especially at this time, for their brethren of the British Empire and the Church of England.

Rev. Clement Rogers, professor emeritus of pastoral theology at King's College, London, before preaching a sermon at Trinity Church, issued a sharp statement, to the Press that the Church of England did not recognise the remarriage of divorced persons. "We do not recognise bigamy. I think that if she were a respectable woman English people would have welcomed a commoner to the Throne. Some think it is no shame for a woman to put aside two husbands in tl(e hope of a more brilliant alliance. I think this disastrous business has done a great deal of harm. Such a marriage between the King and a commoner could have done much to draw England and America together, but this situation will put us apart."