BARTER OF WEST INDIES.
_«_ .— BRITISH PEER'S REBUKE. AN IMPERTINENT SUGGESTION. (Received 8.30 p.m.) A. and N.Z. KINGSTON (Jamaica), Feb. 21, Reference to suggestions made in the United States Senate that Britain should cede her West Indian possessions to the United States in payment of her war debts, was made by Lord Burnham in the course of a speech here. "There is no member of the British Parliament who believes more entirely in the saving virtues of Anglo-American friendship than I do," he declared, "but all this talk about the sale or barter of the West Indian Islands is Parliamentary impertinence. There are certain subjects that should be tabooed in the governing bodies of English-speaking States, and the' sale or barter of organised communities of fellow-citizens entitled to the same rights and privileges of tho British Commonwealth is one of them."
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18332, 23 February 1923, Page 7
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140BARTER OF WEST INDIES. New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18332, 23 February 1923, Page 7
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