THE FREE STATE
"Mr De Valera's course," states the London Observer, " implies that an agreement solemnly accepted by one Government can be repudiated by its successors. It follows, therefore, that an undertaking given by himself at Ottawa or elsewhere would be just as fragile as that which he has so lightly discarded. He would ask dominions which cherish their word as sacred to accept in exchange tenders that on his own showing may lose their value at any moment. Mr Thomas describes such an outlook adequately for practical purposes when he says that it 'would make ordinary business relationship impossible.' If the attitude of the Free State remains unaltered, nothing can follow but a refusal to do business with it at Ottawa, wifth4 drawal of the preference we now concede to it, and a differential tax on its imports, to Great Britain for the recovery of the defaulted annuities."
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Waipa Post, Volume 45, Issue 3212, 4 August 1932, Page 3
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