UNDER DURESS.
Free State Operating Within Treaty. STATEMENT IN DAIL. ■ (Received 11 a.in.) LONDON", March 22. Mr. Sean McEntee, Minister of Finance, referring in the Dail to the treaty between the Free State and Britain, said: "Even if we arc momentarily operating within the treaty and constitution, we are doing so under duress, because they were forced upon us. The Opposition advances from the tricolour to the Union Jack, declaring that they would adopt British Commonwealth symbols, namely, the Crown and Protestant succession, for which Ireland, as a Catholic nation, is accepting penal laws." „ "Bunk," interjected Mr. J , . Macdermott, United Ireland leader, amid Opposition applause.
Mr. McEntee insisted that duress remained because Mr. de Valera had failed to induce Britain to declare her attitude towards Ireland's freedom to secede without incurring economic and military penalties.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 70, 23 March 1935, Page 9
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