SAGACIOUS MINISTER.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 155, 2 June 1937, Page 9

SAGACIOUS MINISTER.

TRIBUTES TO SIR BALDWIN.

LONDON, May 31

In his speech at the Conservative Party Conference after his election as leader of the party, Mr Neville Chamberlain said that, like Mr Baldwin, he was convinced that the best interests of the country would be served by continuance of the national character of the Government. . “T hese next two years,’ he said, “may be critical in the history of Europe. Whether they end in chaos or in gradual appeasement of old enmity land a restoration of confidence and stability will depend very largely upon the part played by this which is bound to be important and may well be decisive. If we are to exert our lull influence, in the light direction we shall require something more than devotion and loyalty to a ■purely party allegiance ” Mr C. R. Attlee (Leader of the Opposition), speaking in the House of Commons on Mr Baldwin’s resignation, said that the passing from the House of a man who for 14 vears led a great and historic party and for the greater part of that time bore a heavy weight of responsibility in difficult and anxious davs marked the close of a. notable chapter - ' in British Parliamentary hisMr Chamberlain, in acknowledging the tributes to his late leader spoke of him as one who gave Ins confidence freely and fully to his colleagues, and was a wise and" sagacious Minister and an affectionate friend whose friendship had been to him not only a delight m itself but a liberal education as well.