NEWS AND NOTES
(COMMENT FROM (OVERSEAS. DE VALERA, THE INTRANSIGENT “We believe that the failure of the Irish negotiations, while deeply disappointing to Mr MacDonald and the people of Great Britain, is not in the least dissppointing to Mr de Valera, because he either did not want or dared not allow them to succeed. From the moment he came into office his purpose, was to pick a quarrel. The Oath and the annuities were, in his view, convenient excuses, but even if Great Britain had pusillanirnously yielded on both ‘Mr de Valera would speedily have found something else to quarrel about.” —Yorkshire Post.”
IRELAND'S ECONOMIC WAR. “The 'lrish Emergency Duties Bill was passed by the Dail,” says the “Scotsman,” “after angry scenes, and with the support of the Labour Party who, Mr Norton declares, are still determined to stand by Mr de Valera’s Government. The Minister of Finance said the powers of the Bill would be used primarily to open up new 'channels of trade, to establish if necessary new industries in the Free State, and to recoup themselves for any losses inflicted on them by the British penal
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Hokitika Guardian, 17 September 1932, Page 2
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