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THE CHINA MAIL, FEBRUARY 25, 1938
Mr. de Valera takes this there seems a chance for Anglo- Irish agreement on trade and de- fence, with partition left for final settlement between Dublin and Belfast.
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any other part of the United Kingdom. With the South, the situation is different. A special customs duty is imposed on Southern Irish goods entering English ports. If the North agreed to unite with the South, what assurance would it have that its trade advantages would. not at some future date be sacri- ficed by a State in which its in- terests were represented by a minority vote?
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Here, then, is Ulster's problem. With this vital question is bound up the future of the linen mills, of the shipyards which have
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the small farms that dot the countryside and give strength to the industries of the North.
This constitutes the reverse side of the Irish coin. And to
A straw sometimes reveals the overlook or ignore it is to see but way of the wind and the ability one half of the picture. of Mr. Neville Chamberlain
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readers for stating in a leading Whatever other effect the Eden article that no hero in English fic- dispute may have, incidentally, it tion "ever had a receding chin." is more likely to strengthen the This, it has been pointed out, is British Government in the nego to ignore that eminent Drone, tiations with the Free State Mr. Bertie Wooster, whose claim than otherwise, while the result has been indorsed since by Mr. of the
Ulster general election P. G. Wodehouse himself. Never- also provides. Mr. Malcolm Mae- theless, a cursory inspection of Donald and other Ministers with the corps of paragons reveals that an additional weapon. It is gen-Mr. Wooster is hardly more than erally admitted that the atmos- the exception that proves the With characters whose phere and the desire for success rule. have considerably improved. In stock in general must be high, fact, Mr. De Valera's personal in chins in particular have always itiative in the matter and his remained firm. Even in works willingness to proceed further where heroes are but bric-a-brac with the negotiations following among more solid pieces, they are the Craigavon tactics is a tribute always fine examples of chinois- to Mr. Malcolm MacDonald's tact-erie. Latitude is allowed to noses, ful handling of the situation. To- and occasionally, as in the case of day, the prospects seem favour-Cyrano, longitude; highbrows and able for agreement on the econo- lowbrows both have a vogue; bat mic issue and possibly also on in the matter of chins, authors, the Irish desire to end Britain's courageously taking the rough right by the 1921 treaty of hold-with the smooth, refuse to re- ing naval bases at Bearhaven, treat. Queenstown and Loughswilly.
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But the unification issue is a far It was Duncan's opinion that more complicated question and there's no art to find the mind's there is still some danger of its construction in the face" Other great men have differed with preventing agreement on other issues.
him: and Wellington is said to have been guided in his choice of Perhaps the chief hope of con-a staff by noses. It is a difficult crete results from the conversa: question; but so far as chins go, tions lies in Mr. de Valera's re- one can scarcely forget that hero cognition that his best approach of actual life, General Wolfe, to wooing Ulster will be by show-whose chin. went no farther than ing an accommodating attitude Mr. Wooster's. Nor is he an iso- toward Britain. Ulster would then lated example: there be more likely to accept Mr. de would appear, many more- Valera's assurance that he doesn't tions than the novelists lintend to coerce the North. If have uy imagine.
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