KING “A FOREIGNER”

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22612, 2 July 1935, Page 9

KING “A FOREIGNER”

ACCORDING TO MR.DE VALERA A SPEECH AT LIMERICK LONDON, July 1. (Received July 1, at 8.30 p.m.) Speaking at Ennis, Mr de Valera said; “ I hope to have an Irish Constitution from top to bottom before the Government leaves office, but I would be sorry to believe it will be necessary to embody emergency measures for dealing with armed conspiracies. There is no country where it is easier for anybody to put a democratic programme forward and there is no need for anybody to resort to arras.” Speaking at Limerick, Mr de Valera described the King as “ a foreiglf King,” saying; “I do so because if the people were free they would not choose him.” He added that he could understand the people’s anxiety to get a republic, but there was a big difference between pointing out an objective and planning how the objective could be reached. They had to proceed towards the goal in a way that would enable them to get the support of the whole people. “If the majority of the Irish people think we are not going fast enough it is open to them to form a more extreme Republican Party than Fianna Fail, if that is possible.”