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IRISH FREE STATE CONDITIONS. ) THE FLAG AND RELIGION. ATTACK BY A MINISTER. (United Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day, 10.J5 a.m.) LONDON, March 22. Referring to the Anglo-Irish Treaty in the Dail Eireann, Mr McEntee (Minister of Finance) said: “Even if we ate momentarily operating within the Treaty and Constitution we are doing so under duress, ; because they aie forced upon; us. The Opposition advances from the Tricolour to the Union Jack, declaring that they would adopt the British Commonwealth symbols, namely, the crown and the Protestant succession, for which Ireland, ag a catholic nation, is accepting penal laws.” “Bunk!” interjected Mr Macdermot, amid Opposition applause, Mr McEntee insisted that duress remained liecause Mr de Valera had failed 1 to induce Britain to declaie hoi attitude toward Ireland’s freedom to secede without incurring economic ana military penalties.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 55, Issue 138, 23 March 1935, Page 5
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