DE VALERA’S IDEA

Feilding Star, Volume 10, Issue 3932, 16 January 1933, Page 5

DE VALERA’S IDEA

Of a Real Settlement WANTS TO C ONTROL ULSTER AS WELL AS FREE STATE REPLIES TO MR THOMAS REBELS READY TO SETTLE ON THEIR OWN TERMS NO DIVISION OF IRELAND STRANGE STATEMENT By Telegraph—Press Assn—Copyright (Aust. and N.Z. Cable) (Received" Jan. 16, 10 a.m.) London, Jan 15. President de Valera, speaking rn Galway and replying to The lion. J. IF Thomas’s denial of the statement that lu» liad forecasted a rebellion in the. Free Start*, said : "We want i»ea<*e as much as England. But ]>en<*e js only obtainable when the Irish people are fret* to determine the terms of their relationship with Britain. Mr. Thomas will never get peace while he insists on the Division or partition of Ireland (North and South ) because the aim of every true Irishman is to end that partition. We have seen no indication of Britain’s readiness to discuss a real settlement. I am interested to know the meaning of Mr. Thomas’s reference to honourable obligations. There never was nobody so determined to observe honourable obligations as the present Free. Stare Government. SERIOUS FOR FREE STATE DEULINE IN TRADE Rugby. Jan. 15. Britain’s Board of Trade statistics show that for the first 11 months of 1932 the imports into the Irish Free State were valued at £40,000.(100 and the exports at £23.000.000 compared with £46.400,000 and £33,100000 respectively in the corresponding period of the previous year.