MONARCH AND MINISTERS

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 279, 25 November 1936, Page 8

MONARCH AND MINISTERS

I ASSISTANCE IN DEPRESSED AREAS. TIMES REPLIES TO DAILY MAIL. Received Nov. 24, 40.50 p.m. LONDON, Nov. 24. “It is right that the King's contribution to the awakening of the need for more specific action to assist the depressed South Wales areas should be applauded, but it is a wholly mischievous suggestion and one altogether alien to the constitution, which would set His Majesty's wellknown sympathy with the distressed against the measures taken by the Government and which by implication would drive a wedge between the Monarch and his Ministers,” says the Times in a leader attacking the Daily Mail's leader of 22nd inst. “The King’s Ministers are His Majesty's advisers and to contrast his personal concern for the wellbeing of a section of the people with the administrative steps of his advisers is a constitutionally dangerous proceeding, striking at the very root, of the monarchy. For if a monarch is to be dissociated for the purposes of political argument from some actions of his Ministers, then inferentially he must bear more direct responsibility for all the rest. The King’s constitutional position is above and apart from party politics and it is simply playing with fire to involve the monarch in party strive.”