NATIONAL ANTHEM ROW
IRELAND’S GOVERNOR PIQUED PREFERS “SOLDIER’S SONG” (Australian and N.Z. Press Association) (United Service) Reed. 9.45 a.m. LONDON, Sunday. An extraordinary position has arisen in the Irish Free State through an official attempt to dispense with the playing of the National Anthem as a greeting to the Governor-General. Since Mr. James McNeill’s appointment to that post his aide-de-camp has requested the playing of the “Soldier's Song.” A band, composed of exservicemen, refused to comply and the Students’ Committee refused to permit the “Soldier’s Song” to be played at Trinity College races unless the National Anthem were played first. This was not acceptable to Mr. McNeill, so he will not attend the races, notwithstanding assurances that the playing of the National Anthem is a matter of etiquette throughout the Empire. The “Sunday Chronicle’s” Dublin correspondent says far-reaching consequences are likely to follow Mr. McNeill’s action, which President Cosgrave strongly disapproves. The President has already transmitted his opinion to Mr. McNeill in emphatic terms, pointing out although “God Save the King” might be regarded as a party tune by the Nationalists, this has no bearing on the case of the Governor-General, who is the King’s representative.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 685, 10 June 1929, Page 9
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196NATIONAL ANTHEM ROW Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 685, 10 June 1929, Page 9
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