THE ISSUES WEIGHED

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

THE ISSUES WEIGHED

NEWSPAPER COMMENT. TRAGEDY MUST BE AVOIDED. MINISTERS' TASK. (United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) Received December 8, 11.55 a.m. LONDON, Dec. 7. "The country will be glad to note that the Government is affording the King the fullest opportunity of weighing his decision," says the Daily Mail, pointing out that it is loss than a week since the crisis broke into i>ublic notice. It says the destiny of the Crown, which has endured for centuries, need not be settled between a Wednesday and a Wednesday. The King must wholly understand by now that, whatever constitutional issues have to be faced, one sentiment predominates—it is the simple, human, abiding feeling that to lose this young leader whom the people have learnt to trust and love would be one of the darkest tragedies that ever befell the loyal and devoted subjects of a realm. "The Ministers, as never, before, must bend their minds to a profound Empire problem, and must examine every loophole and search exhaustively for a compromise. When the King acquaints them with his further wishes the nation wii) pray that a- way of accommodating them will bo found to the advantage of the Empire and the King, says the Daily Mail.