No Discussion On Constitution of Northern Ireland
N.Z.P.A.—Copyright LONDON, Oct. 29. Mr Attlee told, the House of Commons yesterday that in the recent talks with the Eire Ministers at Chequers no discussion took place on the Constitution of Northern Ireland. “The view of his Majesty’s Government of the United Kingdom,” he added, “ has always been that any change in the Constitution of Northern Ireland should not be made without Northern Ireland’s free agreement.” In Belfast the Prime Minister of Northern Ireland, Sir Basil Brooke, declined an invitation to debate Irish affairs with Mr De Valera at the Cambridge Union. Sir Basil Brooke’s secretary, in a letter to the union’s president, said: “ Sir Basil Brooke .feels it would be wholly inappropriate for him, as head of the Northern Ireland Government and leader of a community intensely loyal to the Crown, to participate in a meeting with advocates of the further disruption of the United Kingdom and of the incorporation of Northern - Ireland in the Irish Republic.”
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26917, 1 November 1948, Page 5
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