EDITORIAL OPINION
WHAT BRITAIN THINKS
NO NEED TO WORRY
LONDON, April 10. Newspaper editorials unanimously stress the futility and impossibility of Western Australian secession. The "Financial Times" emphasises thb desirability of conciliatory treatment of Western Australia by the Com-, monvvealth, . . ~ ; The "Financial News" says: "On the face\of it the vote might be. disturbing to . investors in Western Australian stocks, who quite properly regard the resources of the Commonwealth as their'real security, but it is inconccivablo that tho Commonwealth as v j wholo will approve either of; secession or legislation by the Imporial Parliament." ,•,-,' .' Tho "Daily Telegraph" says: ."The referendum must not bo taken too seriously, Tho result is no surprise to those who know the dissatisfaction of tho farmers ..with the; high tariffs imposed by interests in ,■ the Eastern States, and as showing jiow unreliable a referendum can be the votes threw out tho very Government which engineered the secession agitation."
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Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 85, 11 April 1933, Page 9
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EDITORIAL OPINION
Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 85, 11 April 1933, Page 9
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