IRELAND’S PROGRESS.

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 412, 20 April 1937, Page 2

IRELAND’S PROGRESS.

DE VALERA’S HOPES. Message To Co-Patriots. Dublin, April 10. In sending this greeting through he North American Newspaper Alliance to Irishmen and friends of Ireland in other lands, I pray that they may continue to enjoy the blessings of peace and be spared the misery which war brings in its train, says Eamonn de. Valera. In the midst of v.'ar and rumours of war, Ireland stands, firmly for peace. By peaceful and orderly progress the people of Ireland are winning their righ's and at the same ime endeavouring to solve for themselves the social problems which are causing so much unrest in the world to-day. Based on Christian pu incipl s, national progress and social progress are going hand in hand. Emerging from their long struggle for national rights, the Irish people are strengthened and consolidated. They are building up a social and economic system in which the rights of the individual citizen are respected ind upheld by the State. The past five years have witnessed i r markable development of Irish nanufactures and a reorganisation of agriculture, in which the land is used to -a greater extent than previously to supply Irish needs, and the farmers are made less dependent on fluctuating markets abroad. Unexpected progress has be:n made in a national campaign for the abolition of slums and the provision of decent homes for the people in town and country. Progress is also being made tn the development of peat and other natural resources. The unity of Ireland remains to be achieved, but itsachievement is being hastened by the constitutional advances already made and by the increasing economic and financial stability of the area under national administration.