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...weaker sovereign might have mistaken obstinacy for strength and resisted his minister's [Mr. Scullin's] advice. . . . The powers of the Crown will be all the stronger for His Majesty's consent in this case, but they must assuredly be kept in reserve...
Cheers for Scullin. Announcement of the Scullin-Isaacs coup to the Australian House of Representatives last week was greeted with cheer on cheer. In the Parliamentary lobbies close friends of Mr. Scullin told of his verbal tussle, face to face with George V. The right of Australia (under the Imperial Conference decision of 1926) to dictate who shall be her Governor General naturally was not questioned by His Majesty. But the monarch sought to win Mr. Scullin over by expressing himself as "more than willing to do Australia the greatest conceivable honor," by sending out as Governor General...
While George V bowed in humiliation to the will of Australia's Prime Minister James Henry Scullin (see p. 17) one of His Majesty's representatives in the Australian state of New South Wales stoutly defied the local Premier of that State, Laborite J. T. Lang...
Faced by Laborite Lang's advice, game Sir Philip Game refused to take it. So might George V have refused Mr. Scullin last week (see p. 17). In London the King (through the Times) defended his yielding course as the stronger, held that to have defied Mr. Scullin would have been "weaker...
Tense though relations were last week between George V and Australia's Prime Minister Scullin (see p. 17), they were tenser still between the MacDonald Government and Canada's Richard Bedford Bennett. The Canadian Prime Minister returned to London last week from Paris where he had been feted (TIME, Dec. 8). During his absence the word "humbug" had been applied in the House of Commons by Secretary of State for the Dominions James Henry ("Jim") Thomas to the proposals which Mr. Bennett made at the opening of the Imperial Conference (TIME, Oct. 20). Back in London, Canada...