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...take action if Governor Smith of New York should sign a bill passed by the state legislature to repeal New York's prohibition enforcement law. Said Mr. Wait: " Every state official who voted for this bill is subject to the law of treason, having taken the oath to sustain the Constitution of the United States...
...were not so foolish it would appear highly amusing to see Massachusetts, one of the leaders both in the establishing and the holding together of the Union, now by an act of her legislature, and with the approval of her public officials, who when they were elected swore an oath to support loyally the Constitution, attempting to set aside a provision duly incorporated into the supreme law of the land...
Among the De Valera demands: a return of firearms to the republicans; the oath of allegiance to King George made optional; the liberation of republican funds in America at present under injunction; in fact, he wanted to secure a firm basis for the republican party in Ireland...
PHILIPPINE ISLANDS: General Emilo Aguinaldo, who 24 years ago led the Filipino revolutionists and later took an oath of allegiance to the United States, is organizing an association of veterans of his revolt...
Under existing conditions it is hard to see how any far-sighted Irishmen can ask more than the new constitution gives. An oath of allegiance to the King is required of every member of the new Parliament, but that is a form more than anything else and ought not to stick for long in the Irish throat. The Crown, too, retains a viceroy in Iceland, but he is governed by the wishes of the wholly Irish executive council. Except in the case of actual invasion the Irish Free State is not committed to active participation in any British war without...