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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...
...Dublin the first act of the de Valera Government was not to bring in a bill abolishing the oath to King George, as President de Valera has promised to do. To draft this bill would take a few days. But hot out to Arbour Hill Prison rushed the Free State's new Minister of Justice, James Geoghegan. At the prison he discovered "conditions" which he blamed upon ex-President Cosgrave...
...last hours as Kaiser, indecisive Wilhelm II asked General Groener whether he and other German officers would keep the oath they had sworn to their Emperor. Replied General Groener who today is Germany's Minister of Interior and Defense, "What is an oath, Your Majesty? It is only an idea...