IRISH CITIZENSHIP

Greymouth Evening Star, 3 December 1934, Page 3

IRISH CITIZENSHIP

MR THOMAS’S INSISTENCE. [by CABLE —PRESS ASSN. —COPYRIGHT.] (Recd. December 3,.9.30 a.m.) LONDON. December 2. “I adhere to every word I uttered in the Commons,” declared Mr J. H. Thomas at the British Legion dinner at Derby, commenting on Mr De Valera’s Citizenship Bill. ‘‘The Bill,” he said, “cannot deprive anyone of British nationality, which is based on allegiance to the Crown. This is a much wider conception than the citizenship of any particular part of the British Commonwealth of Nations. Nobody questions the Free State’s right, to define her own citizens, but. that is different to depriving anyone of British status. Mr De Valera has forgotten the declaration of the Imperial Conference of 1930, to which he was a party.”

ROYA7 WEDDING FILMS. (Recd. D.-rember 3, 1.30 p.m.) LONDON November 2. Armed detectives entered the operating boxes at the principal Dublin cinemas in order to guard the films of the Royal wedding. Groups of young men at each theatre demanded '(lie withdrawal of the film. They shouted “Up the Republic." and saug “The Soldier’s Song,” despite the angry protests of other patrons. The youths protested against Imperialistic displays and denounced the film as British propaganda. Others hooted the film, which, however was screened throughout. The police ejected numbers at one cinema. Free fights occurred at others.