ANGLO-IRISH AFFAIRS
FUTURE NEGOTIATIONS MR DE VALERA AND MR THOMAS (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright) LONDON, 14th February.
Mr de Valera, interviewed, says: “Mr Thomas’s statement brings back the position to 1932. I agree it is no use blinking tile facts, and accordingly will bring to Mr Thomas’s notice the most vital fact that history for 750 years has proved the Irish will not for any consideration abandon the right to determine their own destiny, to choose the political institutions they desire, and judge the extent to which they will associate and co-operate with other nations.”
Speaking at the Constitutional Club, London, the Dominion Secretary, the Rt. Hon. J. H. Thomas, assured the Irish Free State that there was no hostility and no bitterness, but a singleminded desire to be united. But the sanctity of agreements and membership of tlie British Commonwealth must always be fundamental to any settlement of the Irish difficulty.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXVI, 16 February 1935, Page 7
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