FACING A CRISIS

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18190, 11 September 1933, Page 6

FACING A CRISIS

[)['•:, VALERA’S ADMISSION ATTACK ON OPPOSITION ] )]< TAT( >RS! i IP Ai/LEUED (Klee. Ti'l. ('opyright (Received September 11, 2 ji.iti.) LONDON. Sept, JO. 7\l r Dr Yale.ni, attacking the* new opposition in a speech at- Dundalk, declared that Ireland was facing a crisis involving the national existence. The aim of the merger, lie said,, was to induce, him to surrender. The Cosgraveites were resorting to every falsehood to inspire people with defeatism, and wei'e toying with the idea- of a, dictatorship, while (leueral OThtifv was organising the army for the overthrow of representative institutions, and those in the Dail were creating a. favorable, atmosphere for iis operations and absolving the British (lovennnent from all guilt. I»nl those who made the civil war in .1922 had failed to produce another. If they had patriotically accepted the people’s decision in 1932 there would have been no economic, war with a powerful Umpire endeavoring to exact an unowed tribute which it was impossible to pav. Ireland, if beaten, would be faced with a hopeless future, but if she won the economic war should comfortably maintain her increased pnpu?ation. She wanted pence with England and peace at home. The watchwords must he unity and discipline. The Macdovmott -party’s conspiracy against the payment of rates must he slopped before all local services broke down.