IS IT A LEAGUE AFFAIR?
THE BRITISH ATTITUDE
FREE STATE CONTENTION.
(UNII'ED PRES3 ASSOCIATJON.—COPYRiaHT.) (P.EUTEK S TELEQRAMO GENEVA, 15th December. The League Secretariat has issued the text of a letter from the British Foreign Office dated 27th November, in connection with the -registration with the League of the Anglo-Irish treaty of December, 1921, at the Free State Government's request. The letter reiterates that the Government has consistently held that neither the Covenant nor any conventions concluded under the auspices of the League are intended to govern inter-Empire relations; therefore it considers that Article 18 of the Covenant does not apply to the document under notice.
kAUSIRALIAN-NEW ZEALAND CABLE ASSOCIATION.) ■rri ..t, O]SPO^ 16th December.' Ihe Daily Telegraph's" Dublin correspondent reports that the Free State Government had issued a statement pointing out that it was the Free State's duty as a member of the League to register the treaty made with England and failure to do so would have meant tae< repudiation ..of the Covenant The Dublin correspondent of the Daily Express" says that some quarters there regard the British action as a move to prevent an appeal to the League on the boundary question.
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Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 147, 18 December 1924, Page 7
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