REBUFF IN COMMONS

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

REBUFF IN COMMONS

3.15 P.M. EDITION

MR CHURCHILL'S RECEPTION. NO SUPPORT PROM MEMBERS. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) Received December 8, 12.55 p.in. LONDON, Dec. 7. In the House of Commons, while Mr Winston Churchill was asking Mr Baldwin questions, there were cries of "Shame!" and "Sit down!" Mr Churchill continued and there were further cries of "speech!" The hostile reception to Mr Churchill was the sole topic in the lobbies after Mr Baldwin's "statement. It was recalled that Mr Churchill turned from side to side as though seeking some encouragement. Finally, ho spread out his hands in a helpless gesture and sat down. Members were unable to remember such, a rebuff for a public figure. The Manchester Guardian's political correspondent says it had been claimed that at least fifty members of the House of Commons were associated with Mr Churchill; they did nothing to help him. Mr Baldwin carries all but the merest fraction of the House with him. The various suburban Police Courts dealt with cases in which accused were fined or discharged with a. warning for damaging property by chalking "Stand by the King," and similar slogans, sometimes accompanied by tho Black Shirt swastika on the walls. Shortly after Mr Baldwin returned to Downing Street at 9.15 p.m. a. group of youths passed along Whitehall, selling pamphlets and shouting, "Stand by the King." A Cannes message says that Sirs Simpson's statement offering to withdraw was read to a score of journalists assembled in the Hotel Majestic by Lord Brownlow, who said: "Mrs Simpson throughout the last few weeks has invariably wished to avoid an action or a proposal which, would hurt or damage His Majesty or the Throne. To-day her attitude is unchanged, and she is willing, if such action would solve (be problem, to withdraw forthwith from <a situation that has been rendered both unhappy and untenable. An Allahabad cable says the Indian Nationalist Press unanimously favours the King marrying whom he chooses. DOMINION CABINET. CLOSE ATTENTION TO MATTER. (By Telegraph.—Special to Standard.) WELLINGTON, Dec 8. A meeting of Cabinet, which commenced at 10 o'clock, continued until after 1 p.m., when there was an adjournment till 2.30, the Prime Minister having no statement to make. It was evident that the Ministers were closelv attending to whatever business was before Cabinet, as there were no temporary absences, as occasionally happens when a Minister will return*to his office to deal with an urgent matter. The constitutional crisis lias certainly affected the smooth course of the administration of New Zealand s own affairs for it has dominated the position this week. Cabinet was sitting many hours yesterday, the Ministers holding the view that there would he important developments. They are apparently- puzzled over the delay but are maintaining their undivided attention to the situation.