IRISH SITUATION.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LIII, Issue 238, 5 September 1933, Page 7

IRISH SITUATION.

THE UNITED OPPOSITION,

DUBLIN’S UNEXPECTED ATTITUDE.

Received September 5, 8.35 a.m. LONDON, Sept. 4. The Manchester Guardian’s Dublin correspondent says that overmuch importance should not be attached to the united opposition, which will only slightly increase its effectiveness in the Dail and attract a few new votes in the electorate and merely save Mr de Valera’s old opponents from despair. Its chief gain is that it averts civil war.

WHIRLWIND CAMPAIGN,

PRESIDENCY FOR GENERAL?

DUBLIN, Sept. 3.

Mr W. T. Cosgrave and Mr J. MacDermott, leader of the Farmers’ Party, are expected to make an important announcement on September 8 of a whirlwind campaign following ratification of the fusion of the Opposition parties by the rank and file. General O’Duffy has been offered the presidency instead of Mr Cosgrave in order to leave him free for outside campaigning while Mr Cosgrave is occupied in the Dail.

BLUE SHIRTS’ MERGENCE,

COMPROMISE EFFECTED

LONDON, Sept. 4. The special correspondent of the Daily Herald says the Blue Shirts are to make tlieir peace with the authorities by joining a constitutional political organisation. On this compromise the New United Irish Party was formed. The Blue Shirt as an emblem of fascism will thus disappear. The compromise was largely due to the' pressure Mr MacDermott, leader of tlie Farmers’ Party, brought to bear on General O’Duffy. The youth movement associated with the old National Guard will continue, but all members will be part of a political organisation.