The Archive · 1936

Opinion in Britain

Mr. ®, Bevin, chairman London, Des. 4 trades Union "Congress, "indicated to-day that the organization which hho heads would support the Government in its stern attitude against King Edward's desire to marry Mrs, Simpson.

"Mowever great and dim cult the! problem," he said, "we cannot let Ko Partiament's supremacy, which must the maintained at all casts,"—United Press.

Deadly low at Monarchy London, Dee. 5.

'The constitutional crisis' has called forth a number of xpceches and state ments by leading personalities All walk of tite "Those responsible for the present situation have struck a most deadly blow at monarchic institutions," declared Mr. James Maxton, Tndepen dent Labour M.P, from the Bridgeton division of Glasgow, in a speech at Dorking.

"As a Socialist, 1 do not feel Mke weeping over this," he continued "If you look into the history of revolutions, you will find that rovolutions have not started in the streets they have not started with mobs, but in, the palnee.

"The monarchy in this country har bbeon the centro! unifying and stabiliz~ ing clement of the capitalist system "the monarch or his advisors have now destroyed that conception of the crown."

'The' Bishop of Bradford was severely condemned by the Con: servative Member of Parliament, for Hitchin division of Hertford," Sir Arnold Wilson, in a speech Sir Stafford Cripps, Labour M.P. for East Bristol, also issued a statement to-day, expressing agreement with the Government's attitude as expressed by Mr. Stanley "Baldwin, the Prime Minister.

He points out, however, that advice to the King should be based on the nation's political interests and not on personal or sectarian viewpoints, see no sufficient reason." he adds, "for forcing abdication. Nor do. believe the country desires the Is

Reuter, forced to that "extrem

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