§ 49. Viscount SANDONasked the Prime Minister why, under the terms of the Report of the Inter-Imperial Relations Committee, it is proposed to single out for inclusion in the title of the King the name Ireland, alone of all the other Dominions, seeing that the status of all the Dominions is the same?
§ The PRIME MINISTERThe question of my Noble Friend is based on a misapprehension. Although the Irish Free State has Dominion status, Ireland, which includes Northern Ireland, is not a Dominion. As has already been announced, the proposed title does not purport to define the various political units composing the Empire, but is a descriptive title, on geographical lines, of the territories of which His Majesty is King. The proposed form is regarded as an accurate geographical description of those territories, while involving a minimum of change in His Majesty's title as at present by law established.
§ Viscount SANDONWould it not be more appropriate to link up Northern Ireland with Great Britain by saying the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, and have the Free State placed on the same basis as Canada and Australia as one of the Dominions by being omitted?