ALLEGIANCE OATH

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 148, 15 February 1932, Page 5

ALLEGIANCE OATH

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de valera's aim total elimination AND no payments to • " bri>TAlN,v" » f . ELECTION MANIFESTO

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LONpON, Saturday. | The "Morning Post" says' the sup- ; porters of the Fianna Fail think'th'at if the treaty is destrOyed Englan'd Will - f et'upn to' Irelahd, ' but ' it' iS"Certaid | that nothing • would • induce .the' Biniii ish people ' to again- -uiidertAke 5 thb thankless'burden of Irish adihmistration. On the other handj if the Irish Free State desfooys' its- treaty Britain will have an excellent reason for closing h'er market to'the 'Irish' producers. .... • ■ ■ • ti "... A Dublin message states that Mr. de Valera/s" manifesfo to tHe electors sets out that the first plank of his platform is' th'e 'elimination of the oath of allegiance, which Deputies and Senators are required to take; secondly, he will refuse to hand over to the British 'GoVefnment the land purchase "annuities amounting • to £3,0(10,000 a year. 'He Will also thke a legal opinion" regafding the validity of other payments totalling £2,000,000; the largest item beihg.'th'e' pensi'olis • of the late Royal Irish5' Constabulary. His policy is to persuade , Britain to realise that the" "best inter- , ests- Will' be served if the two cOun- i tries lived as friendly ' but 'indepen'- ! r dent neighbours.