PREMIER LANG

Feilding Star, Volume 8, Issue 2398, 7 April 1931, Page 5

PREMIER LANG

A TER FLY A POSETR AN AMERICAN VIEW KNEW HELP WOELD COME {Aust. and N.Z. Cable) New York. -April 5. The New York Times, in. a leader, 1 leaded “Australia Thinks Twice,” states: “In the strained domesticsituation between, t ha .Commonwealth, and New South Wales, it ls strongly suspected that the latter is .not sc' .•-riv.aqc as might appear. One may •conjecture that militant Air Lang is pleased at heart, tht there is a Sc ullin to jn• rinit him the luxury of a, great gesture of defiance without incurring t!ie risk of untoward eoinseuenccs. Would New South Wales have actually ventured to refuse to pay interest ou -her bonds in the hands of British owner* if she had not known that the Commonwealth wo-uld intervenue and assume the repudiated obligation? Beyond that Air Lang must have kno wry as now apl>c,ars, that the central Government has a means of reimbursing itself. Actually it may he said of the present situation in Australia, thateompared with the outlook' a few montAls ago, i(. is distinctly reassuring. Outweighing the gesture of one State in. dishonouring its obligations, is the decisive manner in’-which ihe Federal Government lias spoken cut and acted .on the f) theft' pule. To-day there is no question as to where ATr Scuilin stands.”