UNITED IRELAND
DE VALERA’S PLAN
MIGHT CAUSE CIVIL WAR
CANA DIAN VIS ITOK ’S VIE W
‘•lf De Valera insists on going ahead with his plan to create United Ireland I am afraid it will mean trouble, - ’ .said Mr. C. J. Burchell, K.C.. of Halifax, in an address on the Irisn Free State, given at the weekly luncheon meeting of the Auckland Rotary Club. “Just what will 'happen one cannot prophesy, - ’ said Mr. Burchell. "It may mean civil war 'between the norm and south. England wilt be in a very awkward situation, but she may decide to let them have it out among themselves. I hope the situation will be allowed to die. \ A generation may clear it up, but it cannot be solved before. - ’
Mr. Burchell said this matter was the one outstanding difficulty in a land where there was now comparative happiness after "00 years of strife with England. There was now no dispute between the countries. At worst only a section of the people had been historically hostile toward the British Government. There was no racial hostility, but "Irishmen have always been ag’in’ the Government." That the people had mutual regard for one another was shown in the fact that between 30,000 and 40.000 young people from Ireland were moving into employment in England each year.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19777, 3 November 1938, Page 4
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219UNITED IRELAND Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19777, 3 November 1938, Page 4
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