HOUSE OF LORDS
FREE STATE AND PRIVY COUNCIL LONDON, 4th December. In the House of Lords, the Willows', Orphans' and Old Age Pensions Bill was read a third time. Lord Danesforth called attention to a speech by Mr BJythe in the Dail Kireann on the subject of Irish appeals to the Privy Council, and Mr MacDonald's attitude thereto, which he declared evasivo and unsatisfactory. Lord Carson said that whenever an issue with the Free State had arisen Britain always yielded to blackmail. "Why should you always pat the back and almost lick the 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 Free State. All" that has gone and is buried." Lord Parmoor replied that the Government intended to hold to the report of the Imperial Conference of 1926. This would guide them at the next, conference. It was a serious thing to assume that the Free Sfcde was guilty of illegality. Lord Reading said that if Mr Blythe meant that appeals to the Privy Council would be made ineffective it would bo a breach of honour. Lord Passfield said he was not disposed to say the Free State was capable or breaching a treaty or contractual obliga.: tions. The discussion dropped.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIV, 5 December 1929, Page 5
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