PRIVY COUNCIL

Greymouth Evening Star, 5 December 1929, Page 11

PRIVY COUNCIL

LORDS CRITICISE FREE STATE (By Cable—Press Assn.—Copyright.) LONDON, December 4. In the House of Lords, Lord Danesforth called attention to the recent speech of Air Blythe -in. the Dail Eirean on the subject of Irish appeals to the Privy Council, and to 'Air Ram-

which, he declared, was evasive and unsatisfactory. Lord Carson said: Whenever an issue with Irish Free State arises, Britain always has yielded to blackmail. Why should you always pat the back and almost lick the boots of people who are always insulting you, your Kin cr and even the treaties like any honest Government. This has nothing to do with my hostility, towards the Irish Free State. All that is gone and buried. Lord Parmoor replied that the Government intended to hold to the report of the Imperial Conference of 1926. This report would guide them at the next Imperal Conference. It was, he isaid, a serious thing to assume that the Irish Free State was guilty of any illegality. Lord Reading said that if Mr Blythe meant that appeals from Ireland to the Privy Council would be made ineffective, it would be a breach of honour.' Lord Passfield said that he was not disposed to say that the Irish Free State was capable of .breaking the treaty, or breaking the contractual obligations. Th© discussion then dropped.,