The Cunard Company announced last week that in the spring
it would place in commission six large new liners, all burning oil fuel, to renew services which had lapsed since the War. Its Canadian service, in particular, will be greatly improved, while the New York service, with the Berengaria,' of 52,000 tons, the Aquitania ' and the Mauretania,' will be more efficient than ever. We admired the Cunard Company for its refusal to sell its ships at fancy prices after the Armistice and for its persistence in carrying on its work in the old way, so far as it could. Socialist doctrinaires often talk as if private enterprise and public service were as the poles asunder. We are bound to say that the Cunard Company has reconciled the two ideas by maintaining its Atlantic services, regardless of a temporary loss, in order to keep faith with the public.
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