Editorials concentrate on the Socialist argument that the merger ought to have been in State ownership. The Daily Telegraph says the fact that the merger is the outcome of a conference representative of Britain, the Dominions and the Crown Colonies is sufficient answer to the Laborite theory that the Bill is the product' of “an international robber gang.” National ownership is impossible in an Empire whose component parts will not accept the doctrine of nationalisation, which is flyblown. , The Financial News says Air Ramsay MacDonald assumes" that State enterprise is a guarantee of public utility. It is because of evidence to the contrary that experiments such as the Imperial Communications Co.
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXVIII, Issue 10751, 23 November 1928, Page 6
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