CELEBRATIONS NOT SUPPORTED BY de VALERA PARTY
LONDON, April 18. Alr. de Valera 's Fianna Fail Party, which takes the view that Ireland habeen a Republie sinee Alr. de Valera passed the External Relations Act 111 1937, has not supported the celebratiou marking the severance of the last formal ties with the United Kingdom Alany Xationalists, who eonsider tha. Irish freedom cannot be said to have been achieved until partition is re moved, also have been notably luUc warin about the celebrations. feo hav* manv Protestants, who supported AG Costello 's Fine Gael Party at the eiei tions in the belief that it would maui tain the ties with the Commonwealtn The Corporation of the City of Dubliu and the councils of many other muri; eipalities refused to spend money on special decorations, chiefiy beeause num4>en"'bf ' them ' agree with Alr. Valera.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/CHRONL19490420.2.25.2
Bibliographic details
Chronicle (Levin), 20 April 1949, Page 5
Word Count
141CELEBRATIONS NOT SUPPORTED BY de VALERA PARTY Chronicle (Levin), 20 April 1949, Page 5
Using This Item
NZME is the copyright owner for the Chronicle (Levin). You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of NZME. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in