NOT A PRETENCE
DEMAND FOR REPUBLIC MR DE VALERA’S ASSERTION (United Press Association.) (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) DUBLIN, April 11. (Received April 11, at 7.30 p.m.) “ So long as republicanism without a republic continues in -ogue there will be many people denying the State’s authority and making their principles the justification for crime until we go over Niagara Falls,” said Mr Frank MacDermot (United Irish Party) in moving a motion that the Government ought to abandon the profession of republicanism or seek the electorates’ authority immediately to establish a republic. He added; “An all-Ireland republic would increase Ireland’s difficulties, as, in addition to sacrificing assets overseas which Irishmen have helped to create, closing careers for the young, and intensifying unemployment, she would have to find substitutes for the shipbuilding and linen industries. On the contrary, if she remained in the Com monwealth it would be a long step to wards ending the partition of Ireland." Mr de Valera denied that the Government’s attitude was a pretence and added that the motion was prompted by political motives aimed at the discomfiture of the Government. “We will not to satisfied,” he said, “until we have obtained the independence for which we fought.”
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22545, 12 April 1935, Page 9
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