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...self-respecting Dominion thinks of doing away with the oath!" shouted Sir Gerald Hurst, again taking up the cudgels. "The oath is simply a recognition of the common duty of citizenship. It is simply a symbol of recognition of the big things of national life...
Intent on driving out of the Irish Free State the oath of allegiance to King George, President Eamon de Valera was heartened last week by news that in London the House of Commons was squabbling over a bill to abolish its own Oath of Allegiance to His Majesty...
Paradoxically the now minute Independent Labor Party which last week brought in the anti-oath bill used to be the party of James Ramsay MacDonald, today the most monarchist of Socialists. Cried the bill's sponsor, Laborite John McGovern: "Any M. P. holding Socialist opinions should be a Republican whether he admits it or not! I want to say here & now that as a Socialist I cannot take the Oath of Allegiance to a symbol I am out to destroy. It is outrageous to ask a member of this House to make it his first duty to make...
Though somewhat belittling the official dignity of George V, this Conservative definition of what the Oath of Allegiance really means was allowed by His Majesty's Government to stand. Soon the Commons threw out Independent Labor's anti-oath bill 294-10-4 and in London the issue was dead. But in Dublin last week it again kicked up its Irish heels...
Regally Lord Willingdon gave his assent, then administered to Sir Ralph: 1) his oath of allegiance to the King-Emperor and 2) his oath of office. That was all for the day, except more ear-splitting salutes followed by "God Save the King...