NATIONAL GOVERNMENT

Stratford Evening Post, Volume II, Issue 237, 8 May 1933, Page 6

NATIONAL GOVERNMENT

Need in Britain BETTER THAN PARTY SYSTEM j British Official Wireless. Rugby, May 5. | Mr. Stanley Baldwin, at a Conservative j demonstration in London, discussing the j necessity for the Conservative Party con- , tinning to work in the National Govern- j ment, said the Government without na- j tional backing could not have undertaken j the recent great domestic problems, j which demanded drastic measures, in- j volving heavy burdens on all sections j of the community. In 18 strenuous months j work had been done which would have taken three years at least under j the system cf party government—if then j it could have been accomplished. j They had now reached the stage when i further progress at home depended upon j internatnonal consultations, Mr. Baldwin 1 said. The times were difficult and in j ( some ways dangerous, but so far the j , wonderful spirit of the nation had car- i f ried them through in safety, ana he . had every confidence the same spirit j would persist to the end and wou'd ; help to carry 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. State;men in other countries looked with envy on the fact that the British Government could carry on its work without the lisk of political convulsion. Fox’ some time yet this form of coalition in Britain was necessary in the interests of the country and the world.