Word: oaths
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Good or bad, the MacEntee budget pleased the Laborites whose support keeps President de Valera in power. The President stuck last week to the job of keeping his other great campaign promise- his promise to abolish the Oath of Fealty to the King (TIME, Feb. 29, et seq.}. In Dublin the bill abolishing the Oath was before the Irish Senate having passed the Dail. Suddenly in London the beans were spilled by that pudgy-fingered, perennial bungler the Rt. Hon. James Henry ("Jim") Thomas, Minister of Dominions...
...self-respecting Dominion thinks of doing away with the oath!" shouted Sir Gerald Hurst, again taking up the cudgels. "The oath is simply a recognition of the common duty of citizenship. It is simply a symbol of recognition of the big things of national life...
Paradoxically the now minute Independent Labor Party which last week brought in the anti-oath bill used to be the party of James Ramsay MacDonald, today the most monarchist of Socialists. Cried the bill's sponsor, Laborite John McGovern: "Any M. P. holding Socialist opinions should be a Republican whether he admits it or not! I want to say here & now that as a Socialist I cannot take the Oath of Allegiance to a symbol I am out to destroy. It is outrageous to ask a member of this House to make it his first duty to make...
Though somewhat belittling the official dignity of George V, this Conservative definition of what the Oath of Allegiance really means was allowed by His Majesty's Government to stand. Soon the Commons threw out Independent Labor's anti-oath bill 294-10-4 and in London the issue was dead. But in Dublin last week it again kicked up its Irish heels...
Fortnight ago President de Valera's oath-abolition bill slid through first reading in the Free State Dail unopposed. Last week its second reading opened with a striking boast by Tipperary's rip-roaring Deputy Dan Breen (TIME...