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rest easier to end the economic discreditable and damaging as it is to both parties? We may take it that the British Govern- ment does not intend to raise ung objection to the new Free tate Constitution. Need it then tianë të stand on the minor disputes between Britain and the Free State members of fan Carbitration. must all be drawn from
NO CHANGE It is evident that the mandate that the Irish State political parties have ceeded in extracting from electorate is that Mr. De Vale party in the Dail is equalled the Opposition. It is in effe setback for him. He is not what he has always aspired bey the unchallenged leader the united forces of Irish Nation alism, and the increased voting strength of the Irish Labour perty will remind him that he cannot afford to bid too high genera against Mr Cosgrave for the getting the advantag
the itish Common- Oreven, it at were judg- venie to reconsider this on, might it not be advan
to let the land annuin
drop out of sight by handoning the plan of imposing
opinion of th
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lure of the Opposi
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Tarifs for a specine purpose earranging the duties to our own convenience and our revenne needs, not for-
State might be derived from
that
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more ser
commercial treaty with the Free Per State Mr. De Valera would and fea-could have no objection to hard the far-bargaining on a purely commer- Fort efte cial basis so long as no effort tively to damage Mr. De Valera was made to secure a political ad- by xing attention on the high vantage. And beyond the pros- taxation and the rise in cost or pect of gain to be secured by hard living.
Apparently the Free rgaining there is State voter loyalty to his old consideration the policy convictions or
or his old prejudices stimulating Ireland's capacity for is strong enough to make him food production as a reservoir for disdain to remember petty grieuse in war. But beyond that vances on polling day. Mr. Cos-again, and before it too, comes grave, too, seems to owe much to another consideration surely far the same loyalty. Considering
serious still that of his party's not wholly creditable need for doing everything pos record in Opposition and the sible to obliterate the memory of weakness of his programme, one old grievances and to remove the is surprised that he did not lose new causes of friction which check the natural growth of more votes.
Perfect order reigned at the friendly feeling between the election, and the candidates neighbouring islands.
fought their battles without loss
of temper in a friendly and even China Lall chivalrous spirit. The right of
free speech was everywhere Another significant pause effectively asserted and seldom to be noted in the Sino-Japanese abused Clearly we may
Crisis, which appears to be gove
late Ireland on remaining erned by two factors. China's one of the few countries in which contribution to the lull is plainly freedom prevails and is likely to
ted in the time-lag be- decision to resist the continue to prevail. That being so it seems a little odd that Mr.
De Valera should find it advis
to the utmost
forces to ensive ong démanded. Japan,
able to equip her with a brand shalling new paper Constitution. But for permit count this he has got by plebiscite a 10 large per cent maiority, and he will the other hand, is engaged in no doubt proceed to make it the lidating the game-cheaply law of land-or, rather, of a part obtained, by ruthlessness and by of the land without consid-exploiting treachery, and repair- ering too curiously its effect upon ing the damage to her lines the feelings of Northern Ireland, communications.
So far as Great Britain is con- One further possibility has cerned nothing tangible will be erged in the last 24 hours. changed. The Free State will The Japanese decision to order Mr Kawagoe to Nanking can only mean that a bid for peace is to beam
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