“WHIPPING JOHN BULL”
WILD TALK IN IRISH ELECTIONS POSITION OF GOVERNMENT NOT IMPROVED MAY JUST SCRAPE THROUGH LONDON, June 15. The Dublin correspondent of “The Times” says that it is at present impossible to forecast the result of the Eire general election on Friday. The whole situation was altered during the past week by a speech by Mr S. T. O’Kelly, Mr de Valera’s principal lieutenant. ■ •' ■ ' Mr O’Kelly boasted that the Eire Government had whipped John Bull in the recent negotiations, and, with God’s help, it would whip him again. Mr de Valera and most of his colleagues have given full credit to His Majesty’s Government for the sympathy and consideration shown in the Irish delegates’ London conferences, and Mr O’Kelly’s speech, which Mr de Valera has not yet repudiated, despite appeals from representative Conservative opinion, has enormously harmed the Government cause. Mr de Valera hopes to win five or sive seats at the expense of the Cosgrave Party. A week ago this task 'seemed easy, but the general opinion now is that the Government may just scrape through.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 16 June 1938, Page 7
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