Carson Impatient With Policy of Conciliation

Horowhenua Chronicle, 5 December 1929, Page 6

Carson Impatient With Policy of Conciliation

BRITAIN YIELDS TO BLACKMAIL.

IRISH FREE STATE AND PRIVY COUNCIL APPEALS,

Received Wednesday, 7.30 p.m. LONDON, Doc. 4

In the House of Lords, the Widows and Orphans Old Aye Pensions Bill was road a third time.

Lord Bauesfort called attention to the speech by Mr Jas. Blythe in the Bail Eircann on the subject of Irish appeals to the Privy Council and Mr Ramsay MacDonald's attitude which, he declared, was evasive and unsatisfactory.

Lord Carson said whenever any.issmv with the Free State had arisen, Britain, had always yielded to blackmail. “Why should you always pat the back: and almost lick the boots of a pooplewho are always insulting you, your King and even the treaties under whichthey exist? Let them know that they must conform to treaties like any. honest Government. This has nothing to do with my hostility towards the - Fro-e State—all that is gone and/, buried,’ ’

Lord Parmoor replied that the Government intended to hold to the report of the Imperial Conferonc-e of 1926. This would guide it at the next conference. It was a serious thing to assumethat the Free State was guilty, of illegality.

Lord Reading said if Mr Blythe:' meant that appeals .to the.: Privy Ooun--cil would be made ineffective, it would; be a breach of honour. ; ’ Lord PassJficld said ho was not disposed to say the Free State was capable of breaking its treaty or contractual obligations. The discussion was drop--ped..