IRISH GOVERNMENT.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LIII, Issue 249, 18 September 1933, Page 7

IRISH GOVERNMENT.

THE PREMIER’S PLAN

BUILDING STABLE SYSTEM

LONDON, Sept. 17

Mr de Valera, addressing an assembly of 20,000 in Cork, said the Government and the Labourites bad agreed to all the main issues of the public policy likoly to arise in a lifetime. The present Dail was standing together to assert the authority of the people and to build up a stable and just economic system. Minor difficulties between them had been set aside in order to work whole-hearted-ly together to bring the nation through the dangers threatening its existence.

Condemning the Republican raids on public houses selling British beer, Mr da Valera said that only in Bedlam could a parallel he found for the madness which necessitated the Government to defend itself on the one hand from militarists wanting to compel surrender to Britain and on the other from a people professing to believe that the Government was not prosecuting its economic war with sufficient vigour.

HOPES FOR PEACE,

HELP FROM POPE?

Received September 18, 11.5 a.m. LONDON, Sept. 17

The Empire News’s Dublin correspondent, referring to Mr J. McDermott’s statement that “a high authority counselled the settlement of the land annuities dispute,” declares that the personage meant is the Pope. Dr Paschal Robinson, Papal representative in Dublin, frequently consulted the Pope in this connection and recently interviewed the Primate of Ireland. Mr McDermott’s pronouncement lias encouraged hopes that peace is assured, as, with the Pope’s support, it could not fail. (