Carson Impatient With Policy of Conciliation

Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 7084, 5 December 1929, Page 7

Carson Impatient With Policy of Conciliation

BRITAIN YIELDS TO BLACKMAIL.

IRISH FREE STATE AND' PRIVY COUNCIL APPEALS.

United Press Association—By Electrifl Telegraph—Copyright. Received Wednesday, 7.30 p.m. LONDON, Dec. 4.

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

Lord Danesfiort called attention to the speech by Mr Jas. Blythe in the Bail Eircann on the subject of Irish appeals to tho Privy Council and Mr Ramsay MacDonald’a attitude which, he declared, was evasive and unsatisfactory.' Lord Carson said whenever any issue with the Free State had arisen, Britain had always yielded to blackmail. “Why should you always pat the back and almost lick tho boots of a 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 Free State —all that is gone and buried.”

Lord Parmoor replied that the Government intended to hold to the report of the Imperial Conference of 1926. This would guide it at the next conference. It was a serious thing to assume that the Free State was guilty of illegality. Lord Reading said if Mr Blythe meant that appeals to the Privy Council would be made ineffective, it would be a breach of honour. Lord Pass field said he was not disposed to say the Free State was capable of breaking its treaty or contractual obligations. The discussion was dropped.