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New Zealand Tablet, Volume L, Issue 41, 18 October 1923, Page 15

Ireland: The Six Counties Question

Replying to a question about the Six Counties, Mr. O'Higgins said the whole trend of thought in the Six Counties in January and February, " 1922, and until Mr. de Valera started his antics, was towards union (applause). "I tell you," he declared, "but for the. gospel of anarchy that was preached and practised here in Ireland you would have an united Ireland to-day, and I tell you this that unless we can build up a decent State here, in which there will be ordinary security for life and property, there will not be a union, but if we build up a State in which life and property is "secure where the writ of the Government runs, where Wen have freedom to go about, then it will not be possible for any portion of Ireland to remain outside the jurisdiction of the Free State. The Boundary Commission will get to work immediately after the elections, and we are going ahead with that clause of the Treaty just as we went ahead with every other clause (applause,).' x