ANGLO-IRELAND TREATY
BRITAIN ADVISED TO FOREGO IT. REMOVING TALK OF SECESSION. By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright. London, July 25. Writing in The Times, Mr. F. MacDermot, a member of the Dail, suggests that Britain would be as wise to abandon the Anglo-Irish Treaty as America would to abandon her debts. “The treaty is exploited to the utmost by the de Valerites as a symbol of compulsion,” he states. “If the Irishmen felt that compulsion did not exist they would not consider seceding. Every objection to the existence of an unfriendly Irish republic applies equally to an unfriendly Free State. I object to leaving the Commonwealth, especially for the sake of the unity of Ireland, which I believe can only be obtained within the Commonwealth. Britain’s early recognition of the right of secession will have far-reaching and good effects.”
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Taranaki Daily News, 27 July 1934, Page 7
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