Belton, PatrickWednesday, 30 October 1935 |
Dáil Éireann Debate
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Private Deputies' Business. - Establishment of a Republic—Motion.
While I agree in the main with Deputy MacEoin, personally I am against the motion. I wonder has Deputy MacEoin thought of what might follow from the alternatives. I am sure he does not stand or never...
I read it.
I read it as a statement of the President's. He can contradict it and I will accept the contradiction.
If we are not a nation after the statement published by the Press of this country and I presume of the world——
Well, we have the head of the Royal House of Dalkey here.
If we are not a nation, how, in the words of the President, have we qualified to associate as equal with the nations of the world in Geneva?
I am not troubled about Deputy Donnelly's query, and I am afraid that Deputy Donnelly must have turned up his nose when he read the President's statement that we are a free nation after centuries of ...
Well, then, the President did not say it?
Well, then, are we on equal terms with the free nations in Geneva?
Not every nation in Geneva is a free nation? Well, are we free to support this wonderful Covenant of the League of Nations? Are we free to raise an army here and send it out to be annihilated on a Eu...
Sure! How are you going to support the Covenant of the League of Nations...
Well, Sir, we are on the question of a free nation, and it will be very useful information, and certainly will make confusion worse confounded, when the President's interruption and statement, and Dep...
It is not a time to be throwing in queries. There are too many queries over there. There is a note of interrogation over there on those benches that would go up to the top of the House. I do not wa...
I am not referring to the Irish Press. I thought it was correct. However, Sir, I think that nobody should be in a hurry to set up for decision in this country, in present circumstances, either the i...
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