New Ties Taking The Place Of Old

Wanganui Chronicle, 23 April 1949, Page 5

New Ties Taking The Place Of Old

W ASHINGTON, April 21 (Recd 6 pm).—lf the old Imperial ties are snapping new ties seem to be taking their place, says the Washington “Post” in an editorial on the London Prime Ministers’ Conference. “This is as noticeable in India and Eire as any of the Dominions, which have no wish to resign their figurehead. It almost seems as if the way to build up an association is to do without one. At any rate, this applies to Portugal and England, between whom a mere alliance of six centuries has deepened into a relation without equal between two sovereign nations, and perhaps between any two Dominions.

«The American people, in this day of American maturity and American power, must wish the London gathering success in ‘tightening the intangible tie, no matter how loose, invisible or non-existent to the eye the formal one may become.” The editorial says it seems to have come as a surprise to most of the Irish residents in Britain that their voting rights may be voided in the British elections. It adds: “If the Irish in Britain were still to retain British rights in Britain t)ie solution would be Irish indeed, but there are so many curiosities in Irish-British relation that one more would not seem unduly surprising.”