IRELAND'S NATIONAL OUTLOOK.

Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 24, 29 January 1926, Page 9

IRELAND'S NATIONAL OUTLOOK.

(To the Editor.) Sir.—"Fudging by the latent Irish ' paper?, both North and South are coming closer together. The Key. Hamilton, exModerator of the General Assembly, L<isburn, says: "Both Governments have fated facts, and faced them bravely, and they well deserve the support of all the people. We sorely needed in this land more of national feeling, more of the spirit that would say: I am first an Irishman and afterwards a Free Stater, or 1 am first an Irishman and afterwards an Ulstenuan. Then, freed from blinding prejudices and petty bigotries, we would look over and beyond boundary lines and realise that North needs South and South needs North, and that both needed the great island 'hugging closely on the east of us. which would be the true boundary in the vast Empire to which they all belong/ Sir T. C. MacArdle says: "We should concentrate on the finding of a modus Vivendi that, while each maintain their own Parliament, the whole country should come together, having a central body to form a Customs union, and to deal with railway?, harbours, agriculture, road transit, tourist development, etc.'" —I am, etc., ERINEAX