PRIVY COUNCIL

Hokitika Guardian, 5 December 1929, Page 1

PRIVY COUNCIL

IRELAND’S ATTITUDE. [United Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.] LONDON, Dec. 4. In the House of Lords, Lord Danesfortli called attention to the recent speech of Hon. Mr Blythe in the Dail Eireann on the subject of Irish appeals to the Privy Council and to Mr Ramsay MacDonald's attitude thereto, which, ho declared, was an evasive a.nd unsatisfactory attitude. Lord Carson said: Whenever an issue with the Irish Free State arises, Britain always ha»s yielded to blackmail. Why should you always pat the back and almost lick tho boots of people who are always insulting you. your King, and even the treaties under which they exist? Let them know that they must conform to treaties like any honest Government. This has nothing to do with my hostility towards the Irish Free State. All that is gone and is buried. Lord Pnrmoor replied that the Government intended to hold to the report of the Imperial Conference of 1926. This report would gide them at the next Imperial Conference. It was, lie said, a serious tiling to assume that the Irish Free State was guiltv of any illegality. Lord Reading said that if the H«n. 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 contractual obligations. Tbo discussion then dropped.