IRISH FREE STATE
NEW GOVERNMENT
VALERA ANNOUNCES POLICY
(United Press Association —By Electrio Telegraph.—Copyright.) LONDON, March 15.
In making a formal announcement that at the week-end the Dail Eirckjhn would adjourn till April 20th, President De Valera, speaking in the Gaellanguage, definitely announced that he intended to remove the oath of allegiance, as he had mandate to do. When that was done, however, he said there would remain no reasonable excuse for anyone not obeying the law.
Mr Cosgrave, speaking in English, expressed resentment Labour was holding the balance of power, enabling the Fianna Fail, he said, to control the election of chairman in a partisan spirit, which was contrary to Parliamentary custom.
Mr Sean McEntee, the Minister of Finance, announced that the Free State would retain the land annuities due to Britain.
On the question of tariffs, the Minister said, the Government’s policy wa ß that nothing should be imported into Ireland that could be mado or grown in tho Free State,
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/HOG19320317.2.29
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Hokitika Guardian, 17 March 1932, Page 5
Word count
Tapeke kupu
163IRISH FREE STATE Hokitika Guardian, 17 March 1932, Page 5
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
The Greymouth Evening Star Co Ltd is the copyright owner for the Hokitika Guardian. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of the Greymouth Evening Star Co Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in