IRELAND A MEMBER
AN HISTORIC ACT SIGNED
> SMUTS ON GREAT ACT OP BAITH.
(V.VITSS PKJE3 ABBOCIANON,—COfTRIOST.) (AUSTRALIAN ■ KBIT ZEALAND OABLI ASSOCIATION.) LONDON, sth December. The Irish Constitution Bill has received the Royal assent.
(Received 7th December, noon.) CAPETOWN, 6th December. General Smuts has cabled to President Cosgrave :—"Now that the Irish Fiee Stete has come into legal being, I desire, on behalf of the people and Government, of the Union, to send our most sincere congratulations on the great and • historic event. The Treaty of peace be- \ tween 'England and Ireland, which has '. now become law,, will not only give add- | ed prestige and solidarity to our great i ■Commonwealth of free nations but, as i a great act of moTal and political reparation, will have a worldwide influence in Van era of intense racial and national . passion such as ■we are passing through. "The people of South Africa have i. learned from their own history that a great' act of faith such as this justifies i' itself^ in spite of the most formidable difficulties, and they trust and pray that, ', under the new constitution, the people 1 of Ireland "may achieve peace and happi- ■ ness together with that spiritual union / with the other peoples of the King (, which is_ stronger and more lasting than t any political union."
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Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 137, 7 December 1922, Page 7
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219IRELAND A MEMBER Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 137, 7 December 1922, Page 7
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