DAIL’S STRENUOUS SITTING

Greymouth Evening Star, 17 July 1933, Page 5

DAIL’S STRENUOUS SITTING

MR DE VALERA AND BRITAIN. [BY CABLE —PRESB ASSN. —COPYRIGHT.] DUBLIN, July 15. Mr De Valera, speaking in the Dail Eireann during a debate on the economic war, said that he was not going to respond again to . suggestions for negotiations with Britain until he thought that something good would come of them. Co-operation and goodwill would only be possible when the evils of the partition of lieland were settled. His policy was not one of ill will to Britain. The issue was that no foreign Bower had the right to have its foot in Ireland. Britain had no right to demand these moneys. He would say to the British: “For goodness sake, stop your aggression! Then there will be genuine peace.” He added: “Nobody wishes a settlement more than I do; but no settlement can ever occur until invaders and intruders get. out, and the unity of the country is stabilised.” The Dail Eireann passed the estimates and the Appropriation Bill. The measures were passed after a continuous sitting of 271 hours, maiked by wildest scenes. The Government continually applied piessuie during the debate. One Hansaid reporter collapsed, a journalist replacing him, while girls were summoned from the typewriting schools to as--1 sist in the reporting.