ADMIRATION AROUSED
BRITISH DEBT POLICY. A CALIFORNIAN TRIBUTE. In France it was “not a sou for America.” In London there was a cheer when the House of Commons was advised that the Government would stick to the letter of its bond.
These are the opening sentences of a paragraph from a San Francisco newspaper forwarded to a Wellington business man, • Mr. R. F. E. Fildes, by his principals in California. The paragraph continues: “Our hats go off to the British for their courage, their pride, and the respect which they attach to their signature. Great Britain has received the worst deal of any ■nation on the debt problem, and it has met its problem more squarely and more honestly than some of those more leniently treated. ‘ _ “For ourselves, we believe that Great Britain deserves in turn a squarer deal from the United States, and a revision of its obligation at least to a basis equal to the terms made other nations, if not more.” Commenting on the paragraph, Mr. Fildes writes: “When one reads almost daily in the local papers neWs emanating from chiefly probably the middle and Eastern States of America that' America fe diametrically opposed to any leniency to Great Britain, it is very refreshing indeed to be able to quote from one of the leading ’Frisco newspapers.”
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Taranaki Daily News, 14 January 1933, Page 9
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220ADMIRATION AROUSED Taranaki Daily News, 14 January 1933, Page 9
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