Ship and Symbol

Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 34, 3 November 1934, Page 20

Ship and Symbol

“The new Cunarder has been turned I by the public imagination and the I events of the last few years into some- | thing more than a ship. She has be- ;? come a symbol. “At first she was a symbol, and a distressing one, of the slump. She lay there on Clydebank, with all work ceased, a perfect picture of the paralysis that seemed for the time to have overtaken our economic system and to have put an end to all its grandiose designs. ’ “It may be that the future historian will choose the moment when work on her was resumed as the turning-poiut in our crisis. Certainly, the public feels that that was so. We set out to build the greatest liner the world had ever known. Then we were told that we were poorer than we realised, and too poor to go on. And then we found that we could do it after all. And we have done it at last.. “British enterprise has in no wise been cast down by the check it encountered in 1931. It has got back ail • its fighting power, it has gone on with ' this enormous plan, and it has carried it to a successful conclusion.” —“Eveni ing Standard.”