ULSTER ELECTION

Press, Volume LXIX, Issue 21019, 22 November 1933, Page 9

ULSTER ELECTION

MR DE VALERA DEFINITELY A CANDIDATE ONLY OPPONENT A REPUBLICAN (UKXTBD PRESS ASSOCIATION—3T SLBCIEIO TELEOKAPH—COPTSIGHT.) (Received November 21, 8.50 p.m.) LONDON, November 20. Twenty-seven Unionists, including Lord Craigavon and the entire Cabinet, have been returned unopposed in Northern Ireland, assuring the continuance of the Government, which has already had 12 years in office. It is considered that if Mr de Valera wins the Southdown seat he will proclaim that the election demonstrates Ulster's desire to end partition. It is unlikely that he will take his seat unless he reverts to his earlier attitude of regarding the oath of allegiance as an empty formula. He may hold an election meeting at Southdown, as the order under which he was formerly prohibited from crossing the border, is not applicable now that he is president of the Executive Council. Mr de Valera has paid his £l5O deposit and has been nominated for Southdown. His only opponent is a Republican, Mr Thomas McGrath, a butcher, so the Nationalists must between Mr de Valera's policy or the extreme programme of the Irish Republican Army.