Summary
TO clarify for Gordon McNeill (Letters, September 24) the spiritual, moral and psychological dimensions of our status as European citizens would require a tome of 1000 pages minimum, so, as always, this letter to the editor remains severely compressed, inviting the reader to explore further elsewhere. In brief response, instead of quoting atypical Norway as an example of a perceived independent country, he might have instanced almost every European country as victims of needless suffering resulting from our early twentieth-century national selfishness and failure to recognise common interests. Perhaps in Mr McNeill's reality these events are illusory.
Jim Fairlie can relieve his bewilderment over insights available from studying our past simply by dispassionate reviewing of the relevant historical texts. But however satisfying he may find crossing dialectical swords with Alex Orr over sovereignty, Mr Fairlie, and Gordon McNeill, trivialise the whole transition through failing to see what is at issue.See the full content of this document
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Grimly Barren Road of 'Going It Alone'
A lesser politician will look only to the needs of his own electorate; a statesman looks...
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