IRISH POLITICS

Hokitika Guardian, 12 March 1932, Page 5

IRISH POLITICS

3>l£ VALERA’S MINISTRY UNTRIED. NO CAUSE EOR ANXIETY. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (Received this day at 9.25 a.ml • LONDON, March 11. The “Times” concludes an editorial by isaying that De Valera’s ministry is an untried body, and Englishmen will watch the future proceedings with detached interest, rather than with anxiety, which seems to be felt in some quarters in Ireland. ■- They will hope for a continuity of commonsense, and it might not altogether be a one-sided disadvantage to this country if De Valera should, after all, decide to pursue in office a policy of (whittling away the Irish settlement and end in the repudiation of Irish obligations, which he sometimes threatened in the Opposition. The situation would at least be clear, and negotiations for reciprocal trade rapidly taking place would be simplified if they were limited to those parts of the Empire which are really anxious for its consolidation.

DE. VALERA'S BIG PROBLEM. NEW GOVERNMENT'S MENACE. LONDON, March 11. The “Times” correspondent at Dublin says that De Valera faces a problem which is likely to assume ugly proportions. The Sinn Fein, and other extremists do not care whether the oath is removed, and they resolutely refuse to recognise British connection in any shape or form. I)e Valera will not placate the Republican left wing movement by any constitutional juggling. These men twill be as great a menace to the New Government as they w<re to 'Cosgrave. . In fact they already describe the New Government as "His Majesty’s .Ministers.’’