IRISH FREE STATE

Waikato Times, Volume 114, Issue 19053, 18 September 1933, Page 7

IRISH FREE STATE

LAND ANNUITIES. POPE’S INTERVENTION. EARLY SETTLEMENT EXPECTED. United Press Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyright (Received Sept. 18, 1.30 p.m.) LONDON, Sept. 17. The Empire News’ Dublin correspondent referred to Mr McDermott’s statement that a “high authority had counselled a settlement of the land annuities dispute,” declares that the personage meant Is the Pope. Dr. Paschal Robinson, the papal representative In Dublin, has frequently consulted the Pope In this connection, and reoently Interviewed the primate of Ireland. Mr McDermott’s pronouncement has encouraged hopes that peace .will be assured as with the Pope’s support it could not fail. ~ ELECTION CAMPAIGN. OPENED BY UNITED PARTY. NATIONAL GUARDS PARADE.

United Press Assn.—Eloc. Tel. Copyright. (Received Sept. 18, 11.45 a.m.) LONDON, Sept. 17. The United Ireland Party opened its campaign at Thurles \vith a parade o( the National Guard, attired in blue shirts and carrying the Free State Tricolour in the presence of General O’Duffy and Messrs Cosgrave, McDermott and Dillon.

An orderly crowd from six counties included many ex-servicemen. The Dean of Cashell wrote saying that he had finished with politics because all must combine to save the nation.

! General O’Duffy expressed the hope for a speedy national reunion and said the /Republicans gave careful lip service, to an ideal which they were careful not to fulfil, their methods of seeking peace being to plunge Ireland into an external quarrel. If Ireland could get rid of the Bedlam generalissimo and his incompetent staff anVl end the waste of best material it would he the best wpy to win. The United Party would lend farmers, £2,000,000 for stock if elected. It was' dear that Mr De Valera was demanding a dictatorship. Let him take warning that he could not illegalise by his own flat things that were inherently lawful. If he attempted to pervert the law to abolish a lawabiding movement op the pretext of political danger his Government would be speedily and sharply ended. Trading with England.

Mr Cosgrave declared economic war was being maintained as the Government’s greatest political asset. The United Party advocated the opening o'" external markets and competing in the British market with other countries. There was nothing un-Irlsh in selling produce to Britain. Mr De Valera had ruined Ireland as the result of engineering an illegal and dishonest movement by picking a quarrel with Britain, and leaving Ireland to pay the cost of his folly. Mr Da Valera knew how to encourage disobedience of the law, but he was stern with farmers for not paying rates. The Government had struck the first -blow in a -civil war in bringing' Waterfprd farmers before a military tribunal. Its mad policy had reduced the farmer to a sorry position. Messrs McDermott and Dillon also spoke. Paot with Labour. Mr Norton, the Labour leader, gave his Kildare constituents details of Labour’s counter-fusion agreement with the Government which he endorsed. Mr De Valera had guaranteed the provision of widows’ and orphans' pensions, financial assistance to the unemployed, and increased house building grants; also consultations with Labour regarding higher wages on relief schemes and all projected legislation. Labour was not bartering its identity. The arrangement would permit a united front against Britain’s challenge to Ireland's independence. -