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Premier Bennett, recalling that (under Article II of the Treaty of 1921) the Irish Free State has "the same constitutional status ... as the Dominion of Canada," observed that in 1926 the Imperial Conference defined dominions as "autonomous communities within the British Empire, equal in status, in no way subordinate one to another in any aspect of their domestic or external affairs, though united by common allegiance to the Crown and freely associated as members of the British Commonwealth of Nations...
Australia then issued an even stronger statement, which it sent not to London as did polite New Zealand, but direct to Dublin. It was the first major protest in history from one Dominion to another. Ominously Australia hinted that, should the Free State cut loose, Irishmen would become alien not only in Britain but in all the Dominions...
...Almost the only encouragement President de Valera received last week came from that most obstreperous State in all the Empire, the State of New South Wales in the Dominion of Australia, the "repudiating" State of Labor Premier John Thomas Lang (TIME, April 6, 1931). In Sydney irrepressible Laborites assembled, adopted and sent to Mr. de Valera a most welcome resolution...
...conciliatory.'' will serve definite notice that he means to ask the Free State Parliament to abolish Oaths and Annuities when it meets April 20th. Privately. Irish lawyers who had advised Mr. de Valera, advised the Press that Canadian Premier Bennett had misinterpreted, in their opinion, the Empire definition of "dominion status." The Free State, after dropping the Oath, would still have its Governor General, they argued. The King would still appoint the G. G. and the Free State would still be "associated as a member of the British Commonwealth of Nations" though no longer "united in common allegiance...
...James's Palace spokesman recently, "the artist of the Royal Family. He plays various instruments and improvises even better than the Prince of Wales." Three, even two years ago Palace spokesmen were saying that King George was grooming Prince George to become the Governor General of a Dominion; they hinted New Zealand...