Salt Lake Telegram | 1932-07-18 | Page 6 | Ireland Willing to Arbitrate Dispute

IRELAND WILLING TO ARBITRATE DISPUTE I DUBLIN July 18 UP The UP-The Thc FreeState Free FreeState FreeState State government is willing to too arbitrate arbi arbitrate its dispute with Great Britain President Eamon de Valera said to today today today to- to day a although hough British insistence that any arbitration tribunal be drawn exclusively exclusIvely- from the British co commonwealth common on wealth may prevent may prevent action De Do Valeras Valera's statement criticised the British demand that disputed payments pay pay pay- 31 ments of ot land annuities to the British crown withheld by the Free State continue as a preliminary to The British est established rat re retaliatory re- re t tariffs to make up the loss from the annuities and the Irish dail rushed through a tax on British prod prod- The senate considers the tarIff tar tar- iff measures today and may delay their passage De Do Valera called t British domand demand de do- mand for an commonwealth all tribunal tribunal trib trib- unal a purely purey artificial restriction He said the Irish government was not anxious to enter an economic war but was determined to defend the theta theta- In interests in- in o of the Irish p people