The Archive · 1936

AUSTRALIA'S STAND Canberra, Dee. 4

The Prime Minister of "Australia, Mr. Joseph Lyons, announced to-day that the Australian Federal Cabinet has Informed Mr. Stanley Baldwin that this Dominion will not legislate. against a morganatic marriage by the King. Australia will not, however, Inaugurate any opposition to the King's marrying Mrs, Simpson: the Prime Minister added.

'A special session of Parliament has been called for next Wednesday, Mr. Lyons revealed, indicating a possible further delay inthe settlement of the erisis—United Press.

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