EIRE AND ULSTER

Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 95, 19 October 1938, Page 14

EIRE AND ULSTER

PROPOSALS FOR UNION

END TO PARTITION

MR. DE VALERA'S PLAN

By Telegraph.—Press Association—Copyright

LONDON, October 13

The Prime Minister of Eire, Mr. de. Valera, on the eve of a campaign to terminate the partition of Ireland, outlined new proposals to unite Eire and Ulster, based on the establishment of an all-Ireland Parliament, representing the six northern and the 26 southern counties, the transfer of the British powers over Ulster to such

a Parliament, which would be established on a proportional representational vote and the retention of local government powers now held by the northern Parliament.

The Prime Minister of Northern Ireland, Lord Craigavon, meanwhile reiterates "no surrender."

Mr. de Valera will inform the Fianna Fail convention in November

that he is opening negotiations with Britain in reference to partition.

It is pointe'd out that the British military occupation of the six northern counties in: the event of war would be resented, as it would .make civil war almost inevitable. Ireland could not then, co-operate with Britain in war time, but a united Ireland could, if her Government decided it was in her best interest.

Lord •Craigayori says that the northern Nationalists could never complain of their treatments Ulster's loyalty to the Crown was never stronger, v As this was so, Mr. de Valera could cease using her as a weapon to threaten the British Government. .

The deputy-Premier, Mr. -J. M. Andrews, prophesies that Mr. de Valera's plan is foredoomed to failure, because the Ulster loyalists would never abandon their citizenship within the United Kingdom.