OATH OF ALLEGIANCE

Northern Advocate, 4 May 1933, Page 5

OATH OF ALLEGIANCE

ABOLITION BY FREE STATE BAIL EIRE ANN VOTE. MAJORITY OF TWENTY. (Received noon.) DUBLIN, May 3. The Dail Eireanu passed the bill to abolish, the oath of allegiance by 70 votes to 56. A. dispatch rider secured the Gov-ernor-General’s signature and the bill will be operative at midnight.

Mr Fitzgerald, e»Minister of Defence, protested against the bill as tending to anarchy. It was dishonest to create a new state without disclosing the situation of the people. Mr MaeDormot, the Centre Party leader, said the removal of the oath would not affect irreeoncileablos to the Bail. The sooner a republic was proclaimed the better, since a prospective was much more damaging than an actual republic. The bill was a feat of chicanery, mainly responsible for the economic war and the consequent miseries, rendering 1 dignified relations with Britain impossible.

Mr de Yalera declared that Ireland ■wanted no confession of allegiance to a foreign king. The removal of the oath would increase the respect for law and end the causes of civil war, the military reparations for which were now completely unjustified. All sections must use the political institutions' to advance their ideals. Everything conflicting with their sovereign rights would he removed and Ireland yrould govern itself.