Word: oaths
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Rome, the oath of "allegiance to the King and his successors" taken by foreigners on becoming Italian citizens was altered by the Government last week. They struck out the phrase "and his successors...
...English Conservatives see eye to eye with Conservative Canadian Premier Bennett, rich lawyer. Last week it was Premier Bennett who set a new Empire precedent by issuing a Canadian White Paper on the Irish Free State. Cautious, lawyerish, it suggested that Mr. de Valera might find, after abolishing the Oath to the King in Dublin, that by this act he had cut loose the Irish Free State from enjoying Empire privileges?including the preferential duties which States within the Empire grant to each other's goods. Can an Oath be so important...
Taking Mr. Bennett's broad hint, leading British newsorgans soon began to say that the Oath is the keystone of Empire and that Canada would evidently not invite the Irish Free State to the Imperial Economic Conference, scheduled at Ottawa in June; with elaborate politeness Premier Bennett warned President de Valera that "only by her own action could the Irish Free State become ineligible to send representatives to the Conference...
Friends close to the President said that his note to Britain, although "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...
...Hearstpapers last week, David Lloyd George reminded the world that he was Prime Minister in 1921 when the Anglo-Irish Treaty was made. He declared: "Full independence . . . the Irish Free State already enjoys. Utter separation would be a curse to it and to Great Britain! ... To dispense with [the Oath] is like dispensing with the marriage ceremony...