Ulster Election May
Follow Eire’s Break CIO a.m.) LONDON, Dec. 10.
A general election in Northern Ireland is now almost certain to follow the inauguration of the Eireann Republic on January 16 according to the Daily Telegraph's correspondent in Belfast who says it is known that Sir Basil Brooke, the Prime Minister, is planning an early demonstration of Ulster’s will to remain in the United Kingdom. Parliament is expected to be dissolved as soon as current business ha? been completed.
Eire’s secession and the renewed campaign against partition are regarded as making the election the most important since 1921, the correspondent adds.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22817, 11 December 1948, Page 5
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