IRISH REPUBLIC
MR DE VALERA'S OBJECTIVE THE KING A FOREIGNER ' rnal Association—By Telegraph-Copyright. LONDON, July 1. Speaking at Ennis, Mr De Valera •aid: “ I hope to have an Irish Con•titution from top to bottom before the Government leaves office, but I would be sorry to believe it will be necessary to embody emergency measures for dealing with armed conspiracies. There is no country where it is easier for anybody to put a democratic programme forward, and there is no need for anybody to resort to arms.” t Speaking at Limeric, Mr De Valera described the King as “a foreign King,” saying; “ I do so because if the people were free they would not choose him.” : He added that ho could understand the people’s anxiety to get a republic j- but there was a big difference between pointing out an objective and planning how the objective could be reached. They had to proceed towards the gbal in a way that would enable them to get" the support of the whole people. “If the majority of the Irish people'think we are not going fast , enough, it is open to them to form a more extreme Republican Party than Fianna Fail, if that is possible.”
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Evening Star, Issue 22070, 2 July 1935, Page 9
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