IRELAND

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 27 June 1924, Page 9

IRELAND

— REPRESENTATIVE AT WASHINGTON. BY CABLE-PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT Received June 27, 10.35 a.m. LONDON, June 26. In the Commons Mr. Thomas, dealing with Irish representation at Wash ington, said it seemed to be the impression that if the Irish Republic asked for it it should be conceded. It should be understood that any such demand would receive the same, reply as he believed would be received from either of the two previous Governments. He believed that peace and lrindship could be maintained in Ireland by the establishment of the Free State as a sell-governing dominion in the British Commonwealth, and no oth e v w ay.—Re ute r. Received .June 27, 9.35 a.m. LONDON, June 26. In the House of Lords, Lord Arnold stated that the Government had instructed the British Ambassador at \\ ashmgton to inform the United States Government that they had concluded that it was desirable that the conduct ot matters at Washington exclusively i elating to the Irish Free State should be in the hands of the Free State Minister Plenipotentiary accredited to'the i;nited States, and they trusted that this proposal would be acceptable to the United States Government. Lord Arnold added that the principle of distinctive representation at "Washington having been agreed to in 1920 in' the raise of Canada, it must clearly, under Article 2 of the Anglo-Irish Treaty, be regarded as inherent in constitutional status of the Irish Free State. The proposal for the distinctive represemtatiou of Canada in Washington was made in consideration of the great special importance of Canadian interests in the United States, and this consideration applied with eciual force to the case of the Irish Free State— Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.