IRISH CRISIS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LII, Issue 118, 19 April 1932, Page 7

IRISH CRISIS.

OATH REMOVAL BILL. MR DE VALERA’S INTENTIONS. (Times Cable.) LONDON, April 17. The Dublin correspondent of the Times says that nobody can foresee the sequel of Mr Enmon de Valera’s introduction of the Oath Removal Bill in the Dail Eireann. “If Labour, as seems likely, supports the Bill,” the correspondent continues, “the Oath will be abolished by a dozen votes. The Senate may refuse to throw out the Bill because Mr de Valera, if returned at the new election which would probably follow, would abolish the Senate. “Mr de Valera seems confident that his treatment of the Oath will not affect the Free State’s reception at the Ottawa Conference, from which he expects to return with valuable preferences. It is said that he has a oneway mind. Apparently one-way minds can persuade themselves that they can have things both ways.” BUTTER BOUNTY. Effect in Australia. Received April 19, 10.5 a.m. LONDON, April 18. <r We do not anticipate that Mr de Valera’s' bounty will affect Australian butter for a long time,” the Australian Dairy Board states. “It may eventually stimulate production, but it cannot produce cows overnight. It will probably be years before the effect is visible.”

LAND ANNUITIES.

FINANCIAL AGREEMENT.

BRITAIN AND IRISH FREE STATE

Received April 19, 12.10 p.m. LONDON, April 18. A White Paper has been issued which for the first time gives the text of the Anglo-Free State Financial Agreement relating to the land annuities. The signatories are Rt. Hon. J. W. Hills, M.P:, for Britain—he was financial Secretary to the Treasury in 1922-23 —and Mr W. T. Cosgrave for the Free State.

The present publication is the sequel to Dir de Valera’s statement that the Free State was not aware of any formal explicit undertaking in respect to payments. The agreement contains the Free State Government’s undertaking to pay the annuities at agreed intervals, and accepting responsibility to collect same from the tenant purchasers. Other sections deal with outstanding financial questions between the two Governments, including the Roval Trish Constabulary pensions and liabilities, and the losses as a result of the Irish rebellion of 1916.