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Anglo-Irish Accord

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2017

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Copyright © by the American Society of International Law 1938

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References

1 Texts are in Cmd. 5728.

2 26 League of Nations Treaty Series, 10–18. Arts. 6 and 7 of this treaty and the annex thereto are expressly abrogated. With the transfer under the new agreement will be handed over buildings, magazines, emplacements, instruments, and fixed armaments with ammunition therefor.

3 The amount of claims thus to be satisfied has been estimated at about £100,000,000. The agreement does not affect the liability of Eire to continue payment of £250,000 a year for property damage, under the agreement of Dec. 3, 1925, nor inter-governmental payments in respect to unredeemed bank notes, withdrawal of United Kingdom silver coin from Eire, trustee savings banks, and double taxation.

4 Correspondence published in 27 League of Nations Treaty Series, 449–450.

5 Manchester Guardian Weekly, April 29, 1938, p. 321.

6 The Times (London), April 27, 1938, p. 11.

7 The Times (London), April 28, 1938, p. 14.

8 Id., May 6, 1938, p. 8.

9 Id., May 6, 1938, p. 9. In the course of his remarks, Mr. Churchill referred to Southern Ireland as a state which was an “undefined and unclassified anomaly,” and said that no one knew what its juridical and international rights and status were.

10 Id., April 30, 1938, p. 14.