NATIONAL SPIRIT

Southland Times, Issue 22009, 8 May 1933, Page 7

NATIONAL SPIRIT

VALUE OF SUPPORT \ MR BALDWIN’S ADVICE BRITAIN’S LEAD TO THE WORLD (British Official Wireless.) (Rec. 5.5 p.m.) Rugby, May 5. Mr Baldwin, at a Conservative demonstration in London, discussing the necessity for the Conservative Party continuing to work in the National Government said that a Government without national backing could not have undertaken the recent great domestic problems which demanded drastic measures, involving heavy burdens on all sections of the community. In eighteen strenuous months' work had been done which would have taken three years at least under the system of party government—if then it could have been accomplished. They had now reached the stage when further progress at Home depended on international consultations. Times were difficult and in some ways dangerous. So far the wonderful spirit of the nation had carried them through in safety and he had every confidence that the same spirit would persist to the end and would help to carry the other nations with them. The existence of a National Government was just as important in these big international matters as it had been in those already faced at Home. Statesmen in other countries looked with envy on the fact that the British Government could carry on its work without the risk of political convulsion. For some time yet this form of coalition in Britain was necessary in the interests of this country and the world.