NEW IRELAND

Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20388, 31 December 1937, Page 5

NEW IRELAND

MR DE VALERA’S HOPE FRIENDSHIP WITH NEIGHBOURS UNITY OF NATIONAL TERRITORY United Press Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyright LONDON, Dec. 30 “ We seek to injure no other nation or people,” said Mr de Valera in a radio broadcast. We want nothing that is not ours by every title of justice and right.” lie hoped that under the new Constitution the country would have a new life of peaceful order and progress in friendship with its neighbours and other nations, and that the unity of national territory would be restored.

“ The Constitution,” he said, “is framed on a basis full of the international personality of the Irish Free

REPUBLICAN EXTREMISTS NEW CONSTITUTION CONDEMNED MR DE VALERA CRITICISED United Press Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyright LONDON, Dec. 30 Extreme Irish Republican groups held a muss meeting in Dublin and passed a resolution condemning the new Constitution as “ a bogus instrument subversive of the Republic, designed to perpetuate partition based on British law as amended and interpreted by the Statute of Westminster, accepting the King of England as the King of Ireland, and allowing him to dominate foreign policy.

“ It does not abolish the treaty and it does not break the connection with England.”

A speaker at another meeting, calling the citizens to combine against the enlistment of young Irishmen in the British Army, said: “ De Valera and his party have done more damage lo the Irish Republic than Cosgrave ever