BRITISH EMPIRE: Parliament's Week: Jul. 7, 1924

House of Commons. To the House, Premier MacDonald branded as "gross misrepresentation and falsification" reports which alleged that he had promised Premier Herriot a military alliance against Germany.

ΒΆ J. H. Thomas, Secretary of State for the Colonies, stated for the benefit of those who see in the appointment of an Irish envoy to Washington the first move toward the establishment of an Irish republic, that the Government was convinced that peace and friendship could be maintained in Ireland only by the existence of the Free State...

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