ECONOMIC WAR

Evening Post, Volume CXIV, Issue 16, 19 July 1932, Page 7

ECONOMIC WAR

RUINOUS TO IRELAND

■DE YALERA'S POLICY

SCATHING CONDEMNATION

SENATE ON SPECIAL BILL

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(Received 19th July, 11 a .m.)

LONDON, 18th July. Senator Connolly, moving the second reading of the Emergency Duties Bill m the Free State Senate, said that the Bill would enable reprisals to be taken against Britain, but the powers would be carefully and prudently exercised.

Senator Milroy, who escaped from Lincoln Gaol with Mr. de Valera declared that the Bill should be accompanied by a medical certificate of the mental state of the Executive Council. One wondered whether it was the work of criminal lunatics or those too consumed with the mania of the neurotic ego to regard matters normally. It was hideous to think that it would plunge Ireland into misery and destitution. The Government in a few months had brought the country to the direst and most appalling position ever conjfropting it. Cabinet's policy was destructive of everything built up since the Treaty. Mr. de Valera wanted to return to. the conditions of 1921 and have another round with England. ;

Senator Browne said that no such powers as those in the Bill had been sought in the history of Parliament. Senator Douglas ■ said that voters would demand that the Government at the next election should declare for" a Republic, producing another economic war, which was more than Ireland could stand. ••■