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IMPORTANT PRINCIPLE
POSITION WORSE THAN WAS
SUPPOSED
LONDON, June 5.
The gravity of the Malta issue is re- <*>
flected in the prominence being given
it in the press.
The "Daily Telegraph" says the Blue
Book fihows that the quarrel between
the church **t*h the Maltese adminis~
tratioa. in which the British Govern
ment became involved, is even a more
deplorable affair than had appeared
from the information already
made public. The accusation ">f
civil tyranny can only be
taken seriously as showing how
strangely ready the Papal authority
has been in this case to trespass oh a
province which was regarded as closed
to it for centuries. Neither the British
nor any other Government could be
expected to take up any other attitude
than it did on the matter, which is ex
clusively one of civil liberty in a
modem State.
The "Times" says it is not permis
sible that foreign influence shall dic
tate who is or is not to be the bead of
a British dependency.
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