Word: oaths
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...invisible and potent foe: the collective opposition of very polite British statesmen throughout the Empire. London hurled at Dublin last week a terrifying silence, a lack of further protest against the two major platform promises on which President de Valera was elected: abolition of the Free State Deputies' oath of allegiance to King George; and cancellation of the £3,000,000 Irish land annuity to Britain. What the new Irish President faced last week was a series of rebukes from such leading members of the Empire Club as Premier Richard Bedford Bennett of Canada and Premier George William Forbes...
...Dublin office the President was trying to draft a white-hot Irish reply to the damp reminder he received fortnight ago from Secretary for the Dominions James Henry ("Jim") Thomas that His Majesty's Government "stands on" the Anglo-Irish Treaty of 1921 and stickles for the oath and the annuities...
Meanwhile in London His Majesty's Government continued to stickle for the oath in a sharp note to the Irish Free State, so sharp that last week neither sender nor receiver would divulge the contents. In the House of Commons a Laborite M. P. shouted: "This means a declaration of war!" Conservative M. P.'s laughed...
Editorially the News told its 1,343,871 readers: "The King says he doesn't much care whether the oath goes or stays." But whether Queen Mary cares even the bold News did not tell...
...Permitted the Free State Parliament to adjourn until April 20 without submitting to it last week his proposal to abolish the oath of allegiance to King George. Before they went home the Deputies were told by Minister of Finance John McEntee that the Free State will retain the ?3,000,000 ($10,860,000) which it is scheduled to pay this year to former British "absentee landlords" who sold out their Irish holdings and are owed this money. Messiah de Valera spoke of lowering taxation by this means...