MR BALDWIN DEFENDED.

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

MR BALDWIN DEFENDED.

KING NOT HURRIED.

LONDON, Dec. 7. There was less activity overnight at the King's country house, Fort Belvedere, which was confirmed by the earlier extinction of the lights, which hitherto wore visiblo well into the morning. The King's legal adviser Mr Monckton, again spent the night there and left at 9.30 tor London. The Dominions Minister (Mr Malcolm MacDonald), was an early visitor to No. 10 Downing Street, carrying a bundle of documents, which were assumed to bo in preparation of Mr Baldwin's statement in the Commons. The Times, in a leading article, deprecates irresponsible comments, and adds: "The problem raised by the King can be solved only by the King. Three false charges have been made against Mr Baldwin and his colleagues, namely, that they presented the King with some form of ultimatum, that they influenced their Dominion colleagues and Opposition leaders to bring pressure to bear on the King, and that they are now pressing the King to renounce his project or abdicate. These cnarges are put forward under cover of a plea for tim<i and patience. There can be no thought of hurrying the King's choice, but he will bo the first to see that a reasonably speedy answer is required. Until that decision is taken let there lie a truce to insinuations against British and Dominions Ministers."