BRITAIN HAS KEPT FAITH
DECLARES PRESIDENT OF FREE STATE
NEW ERA- OF RECONCILIATION.
(TOIIEB PHEB3 ASSOCIATION.—COPIRIGHT.) (RBOTER'S TEIEGRAH.) (Received 16th April, 9 a.m.)
CAPETOWN, 14th April.
In his speech in the City Hall, General Smuts, Premier of South Africa, quoted from an intimate persoual letter from Mr. W. ? T. Cosgrave, President of the Irish Free State, aa follows;—" The British Government have acted in the best of good faith, and\we have kept faith with them."
General Smuts regarded these words as proof that Ireland had at last turned her back on the blood-stained past and that a fruitful era of understanding and mutual loyalty between her and Britain would replace the tragedy of the. past. General Smuts sincerely wished that Ireland, like South Africa, might in the final reconciliation with England ' reap a great reward for all her past sufferings.
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Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 90, 16 April 1923, Page 7
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