SUCH STUPIDITY.

Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 490, 27 June 1932, Page 1

SUCH STUPIDITY.

Mr Cos grave’s Comment on Irish Government. LET PEOPLE PLUMB DEPTHS. United Press Assn.—By Electric Telegraph—Copyr’ght. (Received June 27, 11.30 a.m.) LONDON, June 26 An Australian Press Association representative in Dublin had an interesting chat with Mr Cosgrave, who declined to comment on the treatment of the Governor-General throughout the Eucharistic Congress. He said that he might say a good deal, but that would not help the unity and amity of the Congress; besides, there was more danger of things being misunderstood outside than inside Ireland. “ They don’t .understand our political situation in Britain,” he said, “ where such incidents loom bigger than here. You see, we are not quite used to self-government, and have just had our change of Government. We are hardly trained as yet to calm acceptance cf the inevitable swings of the pendulum. In one way it would benefit the Free State if the present Government were beaten at the earliest possible moment, but a longer view :s that it may be good for the people to plumb the depths of the stupidity of the present Government, which promised the people more . than all the statesmen in Europe together could give them.”