TO PAY AMERICAN DEBT
ADVICE TO ENGLAND j
SYDNEY LETTER STARRED
United Press Association—By Electric Tel««
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(Received 3th January, 11 a.m.)} LONDON, 7th January. *Beneath triple headlines, the first of which is "Should We Sell Australia?" the "Yorkshire Observer" publishes an amazing letter, signed G. P. Townend, Sydney, 27th No-, vember. The -writer begins by asserting that Australia never was, and is not now, fit to govern herself or to raise tariff walls against Britain which never foresaw such a course. He alleges that the working class has been taught to despise and insult English-born newcomers,- but never Scottish or Irish migrants. Politicians prefer American and Japanese manufactures. "What England ought to do," he says, "is to sell Australiato> America as payment for war debts and devote any surplus to developing her own people instead of impoverishing them as she is now do* -
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Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 6, 8 January 1930, Page 9
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144TO PAY AMERICAN DEBT Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 6, 8 January 1930, Page 9
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