Partition in Ireland

Dominion, Volume 26, Issue 98, 19 January 1933, Page 9

Partition in Ireland

Sir, —In your leaderette on "Mr. de Valera’s Ireland” you say “Mr. de .Valera shifts his ground amazingly.” To your readers it is amazing how you twist meanings. For the present the oath and the annuities are settled, hut partition is' a live issue. To state that a partitioned Ireland is due to the Irish themselves is as correct as to say that the Japanese in Manchuria is due to China. Britain created the division and manages to keep it there for her own ends, just as Japan does. The Belfast Government is the creature of London and the bigotry is carefully fostered to keep the common people from uniting there. Was self determination applied to the counties of Tyrone and Fermanagh? It would be just as logical to apply self determination to every county as to apply it to the six Northern counties. It would be equally as just for the Irish to claim North-West England and set up a Government there as it is for a puppet Government to be set up in Belfast; The partition of Ireland is unnatural and a crime, and no Irishman, North or South, will cease striving to end it. If John Bull kept his fingers out of the pie partition would soon end. It isn’t so impossible as you would have your readers believe “to conceive the hard-headed citizens of the North wishing to join their Southern countrymen” as the economic conditions in the North are such that they will be glad to join any who can save them from their miserable plight. Let England cease interfering in Ireland and partition and all its evils will soon be a thing o' the past. —M e are. etC- ' THE IRISH REPUBLICANASSOCIATION. Wellington, January 17.