Word: oaths
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...Rome, the oath of "allegiance to the King and his successors" taken by foreigners on becoming Italian citizens was altered by the Government last week. They struck out the phrase "and his successors...
Since Crown Prince Umberto is reputedly antiFascist, this tampering with the oath seemed a direct slap by Benito Mussolini...
...Victoria, British Columbia, a furious oath battle raged all week between the Provincial Minister of Public Works. Hon. Rolf Wallgren Bruhn (born Swedish, naturalized British) and the Minister of Education, Hon. Joshua Hinchliffe (born British...
...Hinchliffe had introduced a clause into the amendments to the Elections Act requiring naturalized citizens ''to take an oath, when voting, that they have not been bribed or corrupted." Mr. Bruhn, pointing out that he himself, a Cabinet Minister, would be obliged to take this "insulting oath" should the measure become law attacked it with such vigor that the clause was dropped. "Countless naturalized citizens," cried the triumphant ex-Swede, "have just as high and just as intelligent an appreciation of British citizenship as has Joshua Hinchliffe...
...Hearstpapers last week, David Lloyd George reminded the world that he was Prime Minister in 1921 when the Anglo-Irish Treaty was made. He declared: "Full independence . . . the Irish Free State already enjoys. Utter separation would be a curse to it and to Great Britain! ... To dispense with [the Oath] is like dispensing with the marriage ceremony...