NEW SPLIT OCCURS

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18386, 2 May 1934, Page 7

NEW SPLIT OCCURS

POLITICS IN lEELAND 1 ANTI-CAPITALISM MOVE LONDON, April 15. A new split is developing in Irish politics, says tlie Manchester Guardian s Dublin correspondent. Two schools of thought have arisen in the Republican Army, one of which stands for a. republic because it implies a complete repudiation of the Anglo-Irish Treaty and absolute separation from Britain. It distrusts rle Valera because by the. working of Free State institutions he is contaminated by “accursed Imperialism.’’ • . .

Nevertheless, it unites doctrinaiie nationalism with respect for the teaching of the Catholic Church. The othei school is led by tlie novelist, Peadar O’Donnell, tlie two brothers, George and Charles Gilmore and Michael Price, Adjutant-General of tlie Republican Army, who are wearied of the obvious futility of an orthodox Republican Army policy involving support for de Valera at tlie elections, only to discover that he > s so insistent on his own policy that lie will imprison Republicans if they become, a nuiyancev , . , They are opposed to the Church, anu desire to accelerate an economic revolution, overthrow capitalism and put land and factories at the disposal of the peasants and workers. They attempted to persuade tlie Republicans’ Convention to accept their plait, but it was rejected, whereupon • they indignantly marched out.

For this the Republican Army announces they will be court-martiallcd. They retorted by summoning a new convention, which is appointing provincial councils to make tlie desires of the workers and peasants the predominant issue.