THE STRUGGLE IN IRELAND.

Press, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20648, 10 September 1932, Page 15

THE STRUGGLE IN IRELAND.

DANGERS OF DE VALERA'S POLICY. THE republican army. LONDON, August 30. Emphasising the dangers of Mr de Valcra's economic policy, notably the disappearance of important business, increasing unemployment, budgetary chaos, and reckless finance which are leading to inflation and rising prices, Mr- Denis Gwynn. formerly London editor of the "Irish Freeman's Journal," has an article in the "Nineteenth Century,'' in which lie says the Cosgrave Opposition Party is powerless for the present. The Dail has risen until October and cannot be summoned unless a maioritv of the members combine ■SSSFIb* Valera.; » that event the menace of the Irish Rcpubhcan Army, which is steadily recruiting, rearitiing, and adding to its secret dumps, would immediately materialise. The members are chiefly exrsoldiers, says Mr Gwynn their average age ot 30 to 40 being much higher than that of those at typical Republican Army gatherings, which ranges from M to 25 years. .; . Minding with the ranks, one IcarnM that .Ahejf have about'tlio present position. Tney aie vcrv loyai to each other, their former officer*, and the- cause of thfe, Free State. They look fit, and are unquestionably Irish, deepening the conviction ' that the situation is not a strnggle between Britain and Ireland, but a conflict between two genuinely Irish parties. . , . ■ - PATRIOTS' RUSSIAN SYMPATHIES. v DE VALERA'S DILEMMA. LONDON, August 31. The mystery of Mr de Valera's relations .with the Irish Republican Army is a factor of first importance to the future of Irish Free State politics, according to those who have recently studied the position there. It is Asserted that the youthful leaders of this new organisation have sympathies with Russian Communism, and that it is, therefore, unbelievable that Mr de Valera, whose religious 'faith is profound, will identify himself with its ultimate aims. ; ■Possibly because of theextremism oi tho new Republican Aripy, the one which went into retirement with thfc'signing of the treaty with Britain, j has returned tc thtf stage, and should prove to be ■ a influence. ; • i ' y ■ ' !