FORMER KING.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 69, 20 February 1937, Page 13

FORMER KING.

PROVISION OF ALLOWANCE. MINISTRY’S PROBLEM. “This is surely a case where the family ‘means test’ should apply, ’ is the summing up by a member of the National Government representing a Scottish constituency of the opinion of northern electors regarding the allowance to be made to the Duke of W mdsor (says a London message). The Government to some extent is following the course it adopted over the abdication. It is sounding opinion in all parts of the House of Commons. Obviously there are many strands of opinion, but according to the political correspondent of the Manchester Guardian, there is no doubt that the average member of the House, reflecting constituency opinion, is decidedly against a pension for the Duke of Windsor. . “The Government apparently is already satisfied on this point, and would be most reluctant to have the issue brought to the floor of the House of Commons and debated in what might prove a hotly controversial atmosphere,” the correspondent proceeds. “Nevertheless, the position is not quite as simple as that. Nowhere in the House of Commons, outside the Maxton group, is there a lack of recognition that the ex-King must be reasonably provided for. There is also a conviction that he can be provided for within the limits of the new King’s Civil List, without an addition to it. That, perhaps, is the only solution Parliament will accept.”