ANGLO-IRISH AGREEMENT

Greymouth Evening Star, 27 April 1938, Page 7

ANGLO-IRISH AGREEMENT

POLITICAL ADVANTAGES.

[BY CABLE —PBESS ASSN. —COPYBIGHT.] LONDON, April 25. “The Times” considers that whatever criticisms there may be at the transfer of British naval and military rights to Eire, these appear to be outweighed by the political advantages. “The enumeration of political and economic advantages,” the newspaper adds, “does not exhaust the importance of the British andi Eire agreement. When reason and legality have been so repeatedly overborne by emotional violence, the rational settlement of a. long-standing dispute is refreshing.” “The Times” pays 1 tributes 1 to Mr de Valera, Mr Malcolm MacDonald, Mr J. W. Dulanty, and Mr Chamberlain, whose constructive policy of international appeasement is -exemplified by the agreement.

IRISH PRESS VIEWS

DUBLIN, April 26. The “Irish Press,” Mr De Valera’s organ, says that though the agreement with Britain will be hailed with joy and gratification by the Irish people, it in no way affects the supreme and predominant question of partition, which still awaits solution. “There can be no final satisfactory settlement of British and Irish differences,” it states, “until a great injustice is remedied, and until the reintegration and reunification of the territory of Eire have been achieved." The “Irish Times” says: “Mr Chamberlain and 1 , his colleagues have shown a genuine desire to meet the Irish half way—indeed, more than half way. The Irish must prove that they are not ungenerous. Northern Ireland’s suspicions can be removed only by more intimate relations' between London and Dublin.”

ULSTER’S SHARE. (Received April 27, 11 a.m.) ULSTER, April 26. In Parliament, Lord Craigavon announced that, in connection with the Anglo—Eire pact, Britain is adjusting financial relations, benefiting Ulster, and ensuring th same social services as in Britain. The scheduled coal prices apply equally to Eire and Ulster. Britain has promised Ulster further substantial rearmament orders.