DAIL ELECTION
FREE STATE STARTLED GOVERNMENT’S POSITION DESIRE FOR EFFECTIVE MAJORITY By Telegraph.—Press Association, Copyright. LONDON, May 28. The proclamation dissolving the Dail Eirann and ordering a general election on June 17, stated that the Government, with a precarious majority, was consistently at the mercy of a group of combinations supporting sectional interests and could not do the nation’s work as it should be done. The new elections have startled the Free State, which expected that the Government would await the result of the Monaghan by-election on June 7 before fixing the date for the general election. Monoghan would have been a straight-out fight between Fianna Fail (Government) and Fine Gael. Nomination day was today, but the by-election is now cancelled, and Dr Hyde’s installation as President, planned for June, is postponed to an unfixed date not later than June 22. Eight Ministers have cancelled arrangements to address meetings tomorrow.
The final figures in the Free State general election last July gave Mr de Valera’s party 69 seats, Mr Cosgrove’s party 48, Labour 13, and Independents 8. Stalemate was overcome by Labour giving its support to Mr de Valera.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 30 May 1938, Page 8
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189DAIL ELECTION Wairarapa Times-Age, 30 May 1938, Page 8
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