MR DE VALERA INTERVIEWED.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 15 April 1922, Page 7

MR DE VALERA INTERVIEWED.

BY CABLE—PBESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT Received April 15, 10.3 a.m.

LONDON, April 14. Air De Yalera, interviewed, explains his objections to the present regime. He suys that the army of the Republic has now reverted definitely to its former independent status. Asked for an alternative to the present state of altairs, he suggested that the Dail Eireann as the government for the Republic, should continue its functions until a vote is taken. In the interim an executive, which would command' respect from all, could easily be selected and made, responsible to the Dail Eireann "I ,am definitely opposed to a centralised police force which might be made an instrument of a tyrannical! executive and used for political purposes. I approve the suppression of C? U/i: S £ s th?£ are superseded by courts ol the Republic, which still exists "