IRELAND AND LEAGUE.
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MB. LLOYD GEORGE'S PROMISE; A. and N.Z. JL LONDON. ;April ■ 20. v The Irish Free / State Senate adopted a resolution that Ireland: should apply : for membership of the League of Nations. '; The v i Government accepted 5 the 'v motion and said ■ it would make • application in September. ; ' , ]- . - • >;\ \ r ., t Mr. Mac White, Irish Free State representative at Geneva, has handed to Sir Eric Drummond, Secretary-General of- the League, a Note signed by , Mr.: D, Fitzgerald, Free State. Minister \ for ; Foreign Affairs, formally j applying for membership of ; the '■• League 'of Nations. > '% In an . interview, Mr. Mac White said that Mr. Lloyd George, after the signature of the Irish Treaty, assured Mr. Griffith. . that : the British Government would support the request. , Ireland proposed to act in ; the League as a free country. Her , status as a ; member of the British Commonwealth would not influence her decisions.' "The world," he added, "will not fail to see that Ireland is now a strong country which has recovered internal; peace and faith in the future." "
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18381, 23 April 1923, Page 7
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181IRELAND AND LEAGUE. New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18381, 23 April 1923, Page 7
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