BRITAIN AND IRELAND
REMARKABLE PEACE OFFER REJECTED BY DE VALERA LONDON, March ‘l2. A remarkable peace offer, said to have been made by Great Britain to the Irish Free State at the Ottawa Conference, is published by the Sunday Pictorial. Despite the advice of Free State Ministers, the newspaper asserts, Mr Do Valera rejected'the offer. Britain, it is stated, proposed reluting the capital value of the land annuities from £95,000,000 to £24,000,000, and offered the Free State the most-favored-clause-nation in a trade agreement, and undertook to bring Northern Ireland into' flic Irish Federation within reasonable time. Mr J. 11. Thomas declined to comment, saying if was-impossible to discuss the mat ter at. this-juncture. General O’Duffy, leader of the “Blue Shirts,” and one of the leaders of the Opposition Party, addressing a meeting of 5000 people at Sligo this afternoon, announced that lie would establish a Labor policy fully developing a type of trades unionism suitable to Irish conditions, It would 'be on the lines of vocational organisation recommended by the Pope as necessary to stand between theT-indiVidual and the State machine.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18353, 22 March 1934, Page 7
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