IRISH FREE STATE

Greymouth Evening Star, 5 January 1934, Page 9

IRISH FREE STATE

ELECTION RUMOURS [BY CABLE—PRESS ASSN. —COPYRIGHT.] LONDON, January 4. There have been repeated rumours in Ireland that a general election is imminent. With the United Ireland Party’s superior manoeuvring, the O’Duffy case embarrassed the Government leading to outspoken comments at a Cabinet meeting. The Government’s opponents lost no chance of taking an advantage of the situation. A Gilbertian position is heightened by the continued imprisonment of a journalist, Mr. Dennigan, despite the Institute of Journalists and others making protests. IRISHMAN PRAISES ENGLISH. LONDON, November 28. “If you want an example, you could do a lot worse than copy the English,” said Mr. Hogan, former Minister for Agriculture in the Irish Free State, Avhcn ho spoke at Athleague, Roscommon, yesterday. “They are not our enemies, but our best customers. Mr. De Valera’s policy of bounties and subsidies out of our own pockets to enable us to sell our produce at about half price has done more to provide cheap food for the British consumer than all the British Ministers have done in the past 200 years. “The English did wrong in this country, but they are a great nation and a great people. Their Army or Navy has, not mad© them great, but the high standard of good citizenship of their ordinary . people, the integrity and the desire to give good value among their shopkeepers and farmers.”