PRIVY COUNCIL APPEALS

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17126, 5 December 1929, Page 5

PRIVY COUNCIL APPEALS

FREE STATE’S ATTITUDE LORD CARSON’S ATTACK (Klee. Tel. Copyright— United Press Assn.) LONDON, Dec. 4. In the House of Lords, Lord Danesfort called attention to a speech by Mr. Blvthe in the Dail Eireann, on the subject Of Irish appeals to the Privy Council, and Mr. MacDonald’s attitude thereto, which, _he declared, was evasive 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 a people who are always insulting you, your King, and even the treaties under which they exist?” he added. “Let them know that they must conform to treaties like any honest Government. This has nothing to do with mv 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 it- at the next conference. It was a serious thing to assume that the Free State was guilty of illegality. Lord Reading said that if Mr. Blythe meant that the appeals of the Privy Council would be made ineffective, it would be a breach of honor. . Lord Passfield said he was not disposed to say the Free State was capable iof a breach of the treaty or of its contractual obligations. The discussion then dropped. QUESTION IN COMMONS NO ALTERNATIVE PROPOSED (British Official Wireless.) Rec. noon. RUGBY, Dec. 4. The Prime Minister, replying to a question, said no communications on the subject of! an alternative to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council for the settlement of legal disputes between members of the British Commonwealth of Nations had been received from any of His Majesty’s Governments in the Dominions. The whole subject could be most appropriately discussed at the next Imperial Conference.