MR DE VALERA'S TALKS
Press Regards Position As Hopeful ANGL0-IRISH ACG0RD Received 16, 9.30 a.m. LONDON, Jan. 15. Mr de Valera has returned to Dublin. He declined to make a statement be•fore entraining, The "Irish Times," in comjfienting on Mr de Valera 's conversations with Mr Malcolm MacDonald, Secretary- of State for the Dominions, says: "Now that a start has been made there must be no withdrawal. Tbe people of botli countries are anxious for a settlement. The situation is more hopeful politically than at any time sin'ce Fianna Fail came into power. Ireland, for the first time since the Act of Uuion, has recognised the King of her own free will. The European situation demands a worldng agreeinent." It • is understood at Whitehall that Mr de Valera 's conversations were purely informal and that no negotiations are pending. It is denied that a scheme for i United Ireland was considered.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 1, 16 January 1937, Page 6
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