OATH OF ALLEGIANCE

Evening Star, Issue 21081, 19 April 1932, Page 7

OATH OF ALLEGIANCE

MR DE VALERA'S INTENTIONS " A ONE-WAY MIND " Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, April 17. The Dublin correspondent of ‘ The Times ’ says that nobody can foresee the sequel of Mr De Valera’s introduction of the Oath Removal Bill. If Labour, as seems likely, supports the Bill the oath will be abolished by a dozen votes, and the Senate may refuse to throw out the Bill because Mr De Valera, if returned at the new election which would probably follow, would abolish the Senate. He seems confident that his treatment of the oath will not affect the Free State’s reception at the Ottaw’a Conference, whence he expects to return with valuable preferences. It is said that he has a one-way mind, and apparently one-way minds can persuade themselves that they can have things both ways.—London ‘ Times ’ Cable. THE BUTTER BOUNTY LONDON, April IS. (Received April 19, at 10 a.m.) “We do not anticipate that Mr De Valera’s bounty will affect Australian butter for a long time,” the Australian Dairy Board stated. “It may eventually stimulate production, but it cannot produce cows overnight. It will probably be years before the effect is visible.” LAND ANNUITIES THE AGREEMENT WITH BRITAIN. LONDON, April 18. (Received April 19, at 12.10 p.m.) A White Paper has been issued which for the first time gives the text of the Anglo-Free State financial agreement relating to land annuities. The signatories are Mr J. W. Hills for Britain and Mr Cosgrave for the Free State. The present publication is a sequel to Mr De Valera’s statement that the Free State was unaware of any formal explicit undertaking in respect to payments. The agreement contains the Free State Government’s undertaking to pay the annuities agreed at intervals and accepting responsibility to collect same from the tenant purchasers. Other sections deal with outstanding financial questions between the two Governments, including Royal Irish Constabulary pensions and liabilities and losses of the Irish rebellion of 1916.