The Archive · 1937

Mr. Baldwin to Resign

Much sentimental interest tached to a mooting this afternoon at Bowdley of the Unionist Associa Vion of Worcester, at which the Prime Minister, Mr. Stanley Baldwin, referred for the frst time to his irement. "It -may not hie said, "before you will have to choose another member for West Worcestershire."

'A. highly sympathetic audience listened while Mr, Baldwin referred to the burdens of office, Me had always resolved, he said, for the sale of the country and everybody con-corned, to ask to be relieved of office when he felt he had given of his Dest and had doubts about the future, The responsibility Prime Ministers of Great Britain had to bear year after year sapped the vitality of the strongest. Ho considered his judge ment to be as good as it had ever oon, but he was conscious that his vitality had been somewhat sapped.

The speech was. tary minis cent nature, but condemned Communism and Fascism. Neither of those ideas, he declared, could "ever do. anything to help Britain in solving her own constitu tional problems." He believed either would be a terrible danger, No man who brought about changes by force Could maintain himself except by. continuation of foree—Reuter.

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