AN ODD TURN
ALIGNMENT OF PARTIES IN EIRE DE VALERA AS CHAMPION OF BRITAIN. DILEMMA FOR COSGRAVE SUPPORTERS. (Recd This Day, 10.20 a.m.) LONDON, May 31. The Dublin correspondent of the “Times” says the complete lack of logic seemingly governing Irish politics is aptly illustrated in the situation leading up to the elections. It seems at the moment that those wishing to retain Eire’s connection with the British Empire have to vote for Mr E. de Valera, .who formerly was regarded as the seagreen incorruptible of republicanism and against Mr W. T. Cosgrave, who, during his term of office, achieved a high reputation as a Commonwealth statesman. Although Mr de Valera clearly is modernising the. defence of Irish ports solely in the interests of Eire, Cosgrave supporters are attacking Mr de Valera on the ground that he is making Eire a British outpost. This incredible turn of the political wheel has resulted in Mr de Valera facing the electorate as an involuntary champion of Britain.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 1 June 1938, Page 7
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165AN ODD TURN Wairarapa Times-Age, 1 June 1938, Page 7
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