MR DE VALERA’S SURPRISE

Evening Star, Issue 22147, 30 September 1935, Page 9

MR DE VALERA’S SURPRISE

CONVENES OPEN AIR MEETING IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT TO MAKE Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright September 29. (Received September 30, at 9 a.m.)' According to the * Sunday Express,* which, alone publishes the story. Mr D* Valera yesterday telephoned from Geneva convening an open air meeting at Ennis on October 6 for the purpose of making an important announcement. The ‘Express ’ says Dublin political circles are making conjectures whether Mr De Valera will announce an honourable settlement of the Anglo-Irish dispute. Some say that only For such an announcement would Mr De Valer* take such a step.

MANY CONJECTURES LONDON, September 29. (Received September 30, at 10.10 a.m.y ; “ Nothing to say,” was Mr Thomas’* comment on the De Valera mystery, of which another explanation is that Mr, De Valera intends on his own doorstep to flay the critics of his Geneva; speech as committing the Free State’s man power in the event of war, also forging a' new link with Imperialism. Others predict that it will be simply an occasion to reiterate the Republican aim.