OATH NOT PART OF TREATY.
LEADER SAYS ALTERNATIVE TO REMOVAL IS COERCION. PREPARED TO NEGOTIATE TRADE TREATIES. (Received This Bay, 9.10 a.m.) BONBON, Feb. 21. Mr Be Valera, in an interview, said Tie could not see how the proposal to remove the oath was likely to lead to -'difficulty with England. The oath was not obligatory in the Treaty, but only by the Constitution. The alternative •ho removal of the oath was coercion, -•which had been tried for over a century and had failed. . “We propose,’ said Mr Be Valera, --“to govern by ordinary law, and to replace violence by peaceful efforts towards complete independence. We intend to withhold land annuities. “It is too early to say if the Free will be represented at Ottawa, but we are prepared to negotiate trade with England, with whom we desire to live peacefully.’!
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Horowhenua Chronicle, 22 February 1932, Page 5
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