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New Zealand Tablet, 30 October 1919, Page 34

AN ENGLISH CONFESSION. - - - - . . ;. . ■ f: Sir Alfred Booth, the chairman .of; the Cunard Company (says the ■hjs.Glasgowj Observer) stated at a meeting of the company recently: “We % appear to be heading . straight for; ; v national \ bankruptcy ■' y* ‘ rV; ': ’«i “Our gold standard has gone, , and the ; erstwhile'' financial centre, of . the, world now. has! to put up with what is in effect •an ; inconvertible paper currency, which 1 differs only in degree from the flat - money of Bolshevik'Russia. The labor situation to-day is so grave that it is idle to ignore' the; fact that great civilisations have vanished - in the past and the same thing may happen - again . • "fids' Hence it is necessary for England to have the practical support of America. Without that support England will disappear as a world power, and that support, cannot be had unless America sees the Irish question settled. It is. ' for ;the people of Ireland to ensure .2 that -the settlement will not be merely a scrap of paper which England could repudiate when she ; becomes strong again. It must be an international recognition of } Ireland’s independent status with international guarantees. v< >y-iT