Word: oaths
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Causes of the conflict were President de Valera's attempt to abolish the Free State Dail's oath of fealty to George V (an attempt thus far blocked by the Free State Senate) and secondly Mr. de Valera's nonpayment of the so-called "Irish annuities" - sums which the pre ious Free State Government of President William Thomas Cosgrave paid to compensate absentee landlords living in Britain for their former Irish estates. From the first President de Valera offered to arbitrate this issue before a tribunal not exclusively composed of the King's subjects, and from...
...good measure last week, despite the fact that the Irish Senate had blocked the. Bail's bill to abolish the oath of fealty, Finance Minister Sean MacEntee declared at Dublin: "The oath is as dead as Queen Anne!* It will never be taken again...
...President de Valera proposes to abolish the oath to George V by unilateral (one-sided) action of the Free State Chamber & Senate, refusing to arbitrate that issue...
Right & Wrong? Amid the angry murmurs of Conservative M. P.'s, bland Labor M. P. Sir Richard Stafford Cripps, onetime Solicitor General, rose and gave his learned opinion that the Free State has the right to abolish the oath its Deputies and Senators swear to His Majesty, this right resting squarely on the Statute of Westminister passed by the London Parliament (TIME, Dec. 7). Conservative Winston Churchill agreed...
Appearing before the Reichsrat or Council of States, reactionary Minister of Interior Baron von Gayl made a bid for confidence by admitting, "I am a monarchist by tradition and conviction." Then he ringingly declared, "But I will allow no doubt that I shall be faithful to the oath of allegiance to the [Republican] Constitution that I swore before President von Hindenburg! Moreover Chancellor von Papen and the other ministers are in agreement with...