EIRE ELECTION PROSPECTS
Government Cause Harmed MR SEAN T. O’KELLY’S SPEECH (UHITISD PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT.) (Received June 15, 11.55 p.m.) LONDON, June 15. The Dublin correspondent of “The Times” says it is at present impossible to forecast the result of the Eire General Election to be held on Friday. The whole situation has been altered in the last week by a speech by Mr Sean T. O’Kelly, Vice-Presi-dent of the Cabinet, and Mr de Valera’s princpal lieutenant. Mr O’Kelly boasted that the Eire Government had whipped John Bull in the recent negotiation" 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 to the Irish delegates at the London conferences, and Mr O’Kelly’s speech—which Mr de Valera has not yet repudiated, in spite of appeals from representative Conservative opinion—has enormously harmed the Government cause. Mr de Valera hopes to win five or six seats at the expense of the Cosgrave Party. A week ago the task seemed easy, but generally the opinion is that the Government will just scrape through.
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Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22429, 16 June 1938, Page 11
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