THE ROYAL CRISIS

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 9, 9 December 1936, Page 10

THE ROYAL CRISIS

3.15 P.M. EDITION

EFFECT ON POLITICS. QUEEN GOES SHOPPING. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegrap li. —Copyrigh t.) Received December 9, 1.35 p.m. LONDON, Dec. 8. The House of Commons to-day made a half-hearted attempt to return to ordinary business, but even the subject of the distressed areas, on which Labour members are keen, did not arouse the House. A. rumour spread that there might, late at night, be a statement from Mr Baldwin, but it was quickly scotched. Despite the crisis, Queen Mary, during the past week, has done her personal Christmas shopping as usual, accompanied by the Princess Royal. TENSION EASIER. STOCK EXCHANGE VIEW. Received December 9, 12.40 p.m. LONDON, Dec. 8. There is a more cheerful spirit on the Stock Exchange. The tension of the constitutional crisis is regarded to have easedj and instead of buyers holding oil and sellers depressing quotations, it was a case of selling drying up and a moderate amount of buying ligving a favourable effect on prices all round, to-day. British Government stocks rose. REFERENCE IN GERMANY. FOREIGN PRESS REBUKED. Received December 9, 1.40 p.m. BERLIN, Dec. 8. The British crisis was mentioned for the first time publicly to-day by Herr Fritzsche, head of the broadcasting news service, in his daily Press comment. He referred scornfully to the foreign Press devoting themselves in more or less good taste to a description of the private affairs of the persons concerned “who become a prey to the camera and pen.” Herr Fritzsche added: The German Press takes a more chivalrous view. It directs its interest in these days to home affairs; for instance, to a collection for the winter help fund. ARCHBISHOP’S* ADVICE. THE MODERN NEED. Received December 9, 1.40 p.m. LONDON, Dec. 8. “Wo arc called on to face some new, startling and bewildering situation almost every week,” said the Archbishop of York at the Diocesan Conference. “What we need is a sure grasp on something that does not vary—a conviction aliout what is really important and a scale of values by which we might judge which interest or sentiment should give way when we are distracted bv divergent claims. Me have a most solemn responsibility to judge what is our duty, and do it with the utmost conscientiousness. If we do that we are no longer responsible ior the results. If we are either defiant of God or slack in the exercise of our judgment, we then are responsible for the resultant harm.”