DE VALERA SEES THE SEEDS OF DISRUPTION IN IRELAND GROWING

Wanganui Chronicle, 4 May 1949, Page 5

DE VALERA SEES THE SEEDS OF DISRUPTION IN IRELAND GROWING

LONDON, May 3 (Recd. 6 pm).— Mr. de Valera, speaking at Earls Court in the last of a series of antipartition speeches which he has delivered in England, said he had negotiated with six British Prime Ministers on the question of partition, but had never been convinced that any of them were sincere when they said they -wished to see the end of the division of Ireland.

Mr. de Valera said he had heard that a ‘‘deliberately engineered. Orange majority’’ around Belfast was to be used to make Irish unity impossible. If the Irish Republic is to be set the impossible task of winning over this compact majority it would be an outrage and would resow the seeds of enmity between England and Ireland.

He gave a warning that if this tumour proved to be fact, he would find himself back in the position he was in in 1919 when the last I.R.A. campaign against the British Government was launched.

De Valera, when he entered the Empress Hall at Earl's Court, was preceded by a guard of honour of I ormer members of the Irish Republican Army, wearing medals awarder' during the 1916 campaign.—Special N.Z.P.A. Correspondent.

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