HOPE FOR AGREEMENT
BRITAIN AND IRELAND MR. THOMAS’ COMMENT(British Official Wireless.) Reo. 2 p.m. RUGBY, Fob. 13. In the Irish Free State Hail, Mr. de Valera referred to the recent coal aild cattle arrangements made between the United Kingdom and the Irish Free State, and indicated that he would welcome its extension.
Mr. J. 11. Thomas, in an address tp the Constitutional Club, London, said that the British Government, also, would welcome an extension of an arrangement of such mutual advantage to ••both countries; “If this one economic barrier is broken down,’’ he said, “how fervently we will all hope that it may lead to permanent, reconciliation.”
lie assured tho Irish Free State that there was no hostility and no -bitterness, but a single-minded desire to bo united. But the. sanctity of agreements, and membership of the British Commonwealth, must always be fundamental to any settlement of the Irish difficulty.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 18632, 16 February 1935, Page 6
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