Commons Pass Second Reading of Anglo-Eire Agreement Bill Without Division London, May 6.
HE Bill confirming the Anglo-Eire Agreement was read for the-second time in the House of Commons yesterday without a division.
In moving the second reading, the Prime Minister, Mr, Neville Chamberlain, said that it would be necessary to search a very long way through Parliamentary history to find another occasion on which it had been possible, in a single week, to ask the House to approve two agreements with other countries (Eire and Italy)' both of which marked the termination of long and painful differences.
Both agreements, he continued, illustrated the fact that disputes, even when carried to. the extreme limit of acrimonious discussion, could, nevertheless, be settled by peaceful negotiation, if only there were a spirit of commodation and goodwill on both, sides.
Reviewing the history of Anglo-Irish differences over 'a period of many years, Mr. Chamberlain said he thought that the vast majority, of people in Great Britain regretted those differences and disputes, which Madi separated them from the' people of what had formerly been the Irish Free Stale.
Coming to the conference in 1932, which had led to no result, he declared that it was not until the Coat fond Cattle Agreement that-any ap-Dronch to an-amicable arrangement had: seemed possible,
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