VATICAN AND MALTA.
BRITAIN TAKES ACTION. SUSPENSION OF CONSTITUTION. British Wireless. RUGBY, June 24. The Prime Minister announced in the House of Commons to-day that owing to the urgency of the situation in Malta, the British Government had already been compelled to come to a decision regarding the problem. Recently the House bad been given full information about the intervention of the Vatican in the temporal affairs of the island. The position which had been created by that intervention, in the opinion of the British Government, had made it undesirable for "the time being to hold the general election in Malta, which was now due. la those circumstances, the British Government, with considerable reluctance, had decided that it had no alternative but to sanction a temporary suspension of the Constitution. Tha necessary legislation to give effect to thai decision would be submitted to His Majesty in Council at an early date. Its effect would be to place, as an emergency measure, full legislative and executive authority in the hands oi the Governor 'of Malta. The existing Ministry, however, would be retained in cSce and be available in a consultative capacity in so far as the Governor might choose to make use of its services.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20600, 26 June 1930, Page 11
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