MR DE VALERA.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 25 August 1924, Page 9

MR DE VALERA.

VIEWS ON IRISH SITUATION. sy '’s-bi,*—paasa association—copyaiuHT Received August 25, 1.35 p.m. LONDON, Aug. 24. to an address iirom his constituents in Dundalk, Mr De Valera said he had never spent a happier time than in prison, because he was conscious that he had done right, and that his cause would eventually triumph. He refused to sit in Ulster Parliament or the Dail Eireann, because they would partition Parliament. A Republican government would be willing to give Ulster a Parliament with such autonomy as was consistent with unity of the Irish State. He was certain that the signatories to the treaty on both sides intended that there should be a transference of the area. Mr De Valera expressed the hope that when they were confronted With these problems again in a year or two the Irish would not be ready to buv a fallacious peace. Every Irishman detested imperialism, and did not wish in their turn to dominate or exploit the people of Canada, Australia, New Zealand or South Africa. Referring to the 1921 negotiations, he said that political association with the people of Britain, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, • and South Africa, towards which they had no feelings of hostility, was in no wise repugnant to them, hut Irishmen did not want to become involved in imperialistic wars.—Reuter.