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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...
...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...