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to- To-day is the 54th of the first
day corresponds with the position
in Spain before the recent elec- birthday tions, I have heard it said by Dictator in the British Phone 27778/9, a number of observers that very
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WEDNESDAY, OCT. 14, 1936,
THE PALESTINE
PROBLEM
Now that the Arab strike in Palestine has been called off, hopes are strong that the near future will witness a lasting aettlement of the Palestine pro- blem. So long as terrorism con- tinued, there could be no ques- tion of Britain, as the Munda- tory Power, treating with the Now, however. the
two
Eamon de
or three years Southern Valera. This article is Ireland will move sharply to the
about the country under
Left and develop into a Com-
munist or semi-Communist State the rule of Dictator de with an agrarian domination Valera.
which will destroy the Roman Catholic Church and seize its pro- perties.
This view, I think, is based upon a misunderstanding of the facts and upon a misconception of Irish psychology. While it would be foolish to attempt any long distance prediction, one can say unhesitatingly that events in Ireland are not moving towards upheavals either on the Right or and they certainly do not want on the Left.
to run the incalculable risk of up-
The Free State is enjoying a setting either his regime or his period of tranquillity greater policy. than at any time since the sign- ing of the Anglo-Irish Treaty.
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More emphatically still, the great majority wants nothing to happen which might disturb the
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Arabs. quotations
IN spite of many disappoint which individual citizens now Army at the outset of the war
ments and many unsolved thankfully possess.
The Dublin workers, though Royal Commission which has problems, in spite of the high cost Mr. de Valera has behind him That, of course, is not saying been appointed to investigate of living and the unending strug not only most of the peasants and very much. But guns are not aggressive and highly organised. the points at issue will be ablegle to make the country prosper- large numbers of the small farm- popular in the Free State to-day do not belong to the Labour ons on the discouraging basis of ers in the rural areas, but also and the militant Republicans are Party or to the Communists. As trade unionists they are a mixed to get to work. The Political
economic self-sufficiency. the most of the middle-classes in the careful not to flourish then too'
political assortment, unattached to any party. Authority prevails, and the sembly last week expressed its integrity and disinterestedness members of the great sub-middle
Higher wages, more comfort- class which is probably-the-largest-1 R:A-knows-it.
able conditions, a HarrowTMindus- full confidence in the impar-
Whatever change of opinion trial exclusiveness-these arc tality of the inquiry which this uent was dismissed as being in- element numerically in the nation.
These people would deeply there has been since the last elec- their only gods. Many of them Commission will make, and there compatible with the pledges seems no reason to doubt that given to the Jews, while three rent any attempt at revolution- tion is undoubtedly in favour of are still paid the peak rates they
ary violence; they would put up the Republican Party who will put received during the War.
Trade unionism in Dublin re- the problem will be tackled with years later the British Adminis- the same kind of instinctive and forward many candidates at the election. One, `of their tration frankly admitted that it concerted resistance to terroris next
ing grave-diggers in Glasnevin was impossible to grant the ing exploits by gunmen that in leaders told me that they expected cently reached the point of order- Englund one would take as a mat- to win at least 85 cents. Cemetery not to bury an unknown the situation. Most of the trou-Arabs representation on an electer of course. SUMMER
And they know forecast, I think, is a sheer child, sent for interment from the ble in Palestine has undoubtedly
tive Council, proportionate to that the new Free State Army absurdity. They have a very Dublin Union, beenuse it was arisen as a consequence of the
their numbers, because in that a small force less than six thou- poor organisation and-notwith- alleged that the body was not en- sand strong, but well-trained, standing their ability to obtain cased in a trade union coffin! Balfour Declaration of 1917,
event the Government of Palest-well-organised and well-equipped arms, which is almost a natural The grave-diggers refused to bury stating that the British Govern-
ine would be placed in a perman--can be relied on utterly as a instinct of Irish acquisitiveness the child and the body had to be ment favoured the establishment
ent impasse "in regard to its loyal servant of the State. of a National Home for the
This temper marks a very If they win more than five The Irish trado unionists' other obligations in the Man-
striking change from the days seats they will do better than any fanatical enthusiasm (set alight Jewish people in Palestine. The
date." This the Arabs regard-when a dozen men could shoot well-informed Irish politician ex- by Larkin) for the strike weapon Arab community have always
ed as a breach of the pledge up a whole neighbourhood and peets.
constitutes a problem, but not a felt that this implied an unduly
for given in 1918 to "indigenous reduce it to
Moreover they are an absten- direct political problem, discriminatory policy, but their
potence.
tionist Party. Ireland has no authority. populations." In 1930, follow- fears were somewhat allayed in
My impression of the Irish longer much use for politicians ing the visit of two Commis-bodies of the Left which advo- who, if they are elected, will re- the following year when Lord
sions, the British Government cato armed force in the "struggle ward the State by staying at lenby, High Commissioner, issued a statement of policy in for national freedom and for the home in carpet slippers by the economic liberation of the people" fireside, instead of helping to made a definite promise, in which it was clearly stated that is that their power is on the wane. govern the country. The absten- proclamation, to the peoples of the Arabs "do not at present In their speeches and pamphlets tionist technique is nearly dead. Syrin and Palestine, of "national
possess any constitutional means they talk the old familiar langu-
Up to a short time ago there.. were a number of Communist Governments and Administra-for putting their views on social age. But a new generation is
organisations in Dublin. The tions deriving their authority and economic matters before the growing up, which is ceasing to think with the old Irish ardour in
THE Cosgrave Party has Party sent speakers all over the from the initiative and free Government." The situation
terms of firearms.
censed to appeal to the country. At the street corners choice of the indigenous popula- has since become aggravated by
Some of the leaders of the younger people. For a time the they openly attacked Christianity
an and advocated
anti-God tions.". Unhappily, the Araba. large-scale influx of Jews into I.R.A. whom I met appeared to Blue Shirt Movement made great crusade. The I.R.A, Itaolf was the country, with the result that me to have lost much of their headway, particularly among the split in two by Communists and although constituting more than the Arab rural communities have zest for a revolutionary crusade. sons of well-to-do farmers hit by anti-Communists within the move-
the economic war with Eng- ment. ninety per cent of the popula-been gradually rendered land- They lack real forcefulness of land. That movement has now
Saor Eire ("Save Ireland") tion of Palestine, were not re-less. This is the position which mind. Their intellectual concep almost ceased to exist.
tions are out of date and it is
was launched as an offshoot of It was virtually destroyed by the IRA. The Cosgrave Gov cognised in the Mandate, which the Royal Commission has to clear that they have not thought
It Beets clear that out the full implications of either the casting out of General ernment banned it and the Catho even omits all reference to their face.
Ireland Party and by the reso- orthodox leaders within the IRA name Professor John Gar. British policy will have to be their political or their economie Duffy from the official United lic Church, condemned it. The lute efforts of the Government shied away. Some of the more modified, and, as Professor Gar-programme. etang, in a most informative
It is true that they are still to suppress militant action. extreme men left the LR.A and stang contends, that the Mand- article on the Arab grievances,
supplied with arms dumped
The Labour Party has little started a rival organisation in the nte will have to be re-worded so secretly in different parts of the
soven Labour Party, which now contains most points out that the Arab request as to purge it of its ambiguities country. I was told that not long hope of increasing its represen- name of the Republican Congress
a consignment of machine tation. The in 1922 for the creation of aand of the possibility of belugans and small arins (from Eng- deputies now in the Dall'are likely of the human violence still left in
Irish political life. national independent Govern- unjust either to Jews or Araba. land) was as large as the defen- to be re-elected.
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