REPUBLIC AS PRIME ISSUE

Taranaki Daily News, 15 August 1933, Page 7

REPUBLIC AS PRIME ISSUE

POSSIBILITIES IN IRELAND

WILL ELECTION BE FORCED?

MR. DE VALERA’S PROBLEM

GEN. O’DUFFY’S WISDOM

By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright.

Rec. 10 p.m. London, Aug. 14. The executive of the National Guard met simultaneously with the cenotaph ceremony and considered the possibility of Mr. De Valera rushing the country into an early election with the formation of a republic as a straight issue, says the special Dublin correspondent of the Daily Mail. The increasing economic distress may cause Mr. de Valera to attempt to consolidate his position by a snap vote. Meanwhile he is still seeking to re-start negotiations with Britain through General Smuts and Mr. Havenga (South Africa), both of whom failed to bring the Governments together. “General O’Duffy’s wisdom prevented another bloody Sunday,” says the Daily Mail. “Mr. de Valera has won the first round, but more will be heard of the National Guard, whose aims appeal to those feeling the pinch of the suicidal economic war against Britain. They have won the support of the almost ruined farmers and the sympathy of Mr. Cosgrave, the police and the church. Mr. de Valera may well feel uneasy."