REPLY TO AUSTRALIA
OBSTACLES NOT CREATED BY FREE 1 STATE Jefinite mandate claimed I CANBERRA, Monday. ■ The Prime Minister, Mr. J. A. Hpns has released the- following; BMe from Mr. de Valera, in reply ■ his cable of April 1: ■ "I am grateful for your telegram, mi I should like to assure you that ■y colleagues and I appreciate the ■Kiety you feel concerning the re■jtions between the Free State and Bteat Britain. ■ "I should like to make it quite ■W that the obstacles in the way of ■endship were not created by us. ■ "The principal issue at the mobetween us is the conscience test ■? niembers of our Parliament imWsed by Britain. ■ "We have received a definite man■'e from the people .to abolisb that and we intend to secure its imH^iate elimination from tlre conBtution. We wish to be on friendly Jtffis with Britain, and I have no Hjibt we shall establish a relation ■ real friendship as soon as Britain Whses that an equality of rights, not H'ne-sided imposition of tests and un- . ■4 burdens, is the only possible basis ■ friendship between us."
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 196, 12 April 1932, Page 5
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