Joe Higgins (Dublin West, Socialist Party)

Was the Minister's bold statement in Washington that he wanted the bondholders burned related to the fact that the following day was a press occasion for the Government on its first 100 days in office? When the Minister found himself in Washington, was he rather like the brave schoolboy smoking behind the shed, bragging against the teacher and talking big, but then when he faced the schoolmasters of Frankfurt and Brussels the big talk stopped? Was it not a most cynical intervention with no substance behind it?

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