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DE VALERA

STILL

N spite of hints to the con- trary in some English news- papera ΓΙ recent visit to

Southern Ireland convinces me beyond all reasonable doubt that Mr. de Valera is still supreme in the Irish Free State; that he has little to fear from the mixed opposition to his rule and that at the next election, whenever it comes, he will be returned

tri á m p h- antly to power.

The gug- gestion has been made that

ON TOP

By

A. J.

Cummings

the position in the Free State to-

day corresponds with the position

To-day is the 54th.

in Spain before the recent elec birthday of the first tions. I have heard it said by Dictator in the British Phone 27778/9. a number of observers that very

Hongkong Gelegraph.

WEDNESDAY, OCT. 14, 1986,

THE PALESTINE PROBLEM

soon-perhaps in the course of Empire,

Eamon de

two or three years-Southern Valera. This article is Ireland will move sharply to the

Left and develop into a Com about the country under 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 faels and upon a misconception of Irish paychology. While it would be foolish to attempt any Now that the Arab strike in long distance prediction, one can suy unhesitatingly that events in Palestine has been called off.

Ireland are not moving towards hopes are strong that the near upheavals either on the Right or and they certainly do not want future will witness a lasting on the Left.

to ran the incalculable risk of up- settlement of the Palestine pro-

The Free State is enjoying a setting either his regime or his period of tranquillity greater policy. blem. So long as terrorism con-

than at any time since the sign- tinued, there could be no ques-ing of the Anglo-Irish Treaty.

tion of Britain, as the Manda-

tory Power, treating with the

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The Dublin workers, though

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More emphatically still, the reat majority wants nothing to happen which might disturb the unwonted peace and security sive equipment of the Abyssinian Arabs. Now. however, the IN spite of many disappoint which individual citizens now Army at the outset of the war

with Italy. ments and many unsolved thankfully posse74, Royal Commission which has problems, in spite of the high enst Mr. de Valera has behind him That, of course, is not saying heen 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

ous on the discouraging basis, of era in the rural areas, but also and the militant Republicans are Party or to the Communista. to get to work. The Political

economic self-sufficiency, the most of the middle-classes in the careful not to flourish them too trade unionists they are a mixed political assortment, unattached Committee of the League As people believe in Mr. de Valera's towns and the shop-keepers and preventively.

to any party. sembly last week expressed its integrity and disinterestedness members of the great sub-middle Authority prevails, and | full-confidence-in-the-impar-- tiality of the inquiry which this Commission will make, and there seems no reason to doubt that the problem will be tackled with a full sense of the realities of

the

their

His

Trade unionism in Dublin re- cently reached the point of order- ing grave-diggers in Glasnevin

Farisen as a consequence of the their numbers, because in that small force less than six thou poor organisation and—notwith-, alleged that the body was not en.

Balfour Declaration of 1917. stating that the British Govern- ment favoured the establishment

given in 1918 to "indigenous reduce it to frightened im- populations." in 1930, follow-

their funds are low.

Higher wages, more comfort- class which is probably the largest I.R.A. knows it.

able_conditions3.-4-arrow-indus.... Whatever change of opinion trial exclusiveness-there Ilre ment was dismissed as being in- element numerically in the nation,

These people would deeply there has been since the last elec. their only gade. Many of them compatible with the pledges given to the Jews, while three next day attempt at revolution- tion is undoubtedly in favour of are still paid the peak rates they

ury violence; they would put up the Republican Party who will put received during the War. years later the British Adminis- the same kind of instinctive and forward many candidates at the

of tration frankly admitted that it concerted resistance to terroris next election. One was impossible to grant the ing exploits by gunmen that in leaders told me that they expected

England one would take as à mat- to win at least 35 gents. the situation. Most of the trou-Arabs representation on an elec-ter of course.

Cemetery hot to bury an unknown And they know forecast, I think, is A sheer ble in Palestine has undoubtedly tive Council, proportionate to that the new Free State Army absurdity. They have a

chik, sent for interment from the very Dublin Union, because it was sand strong, but well-trained, standing their ability to obtain cased in a trade union coffin! event the Government of Palest well-organised and well-equipped arms, which is almost a natural The grave-diggers refused to bury 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 taken back to the Union officials: ent impasse "in regard to its loyal servant of the State. of a National Home for the other obligations in the Man- This temper marks a very If they win more than five The Irish trade unionists' Jewish people in Palestine. The

striking change from the days seats they will do better than any famatical enthusiasm (sot alight date." This the Araba 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 pects.

constitutes a problem, but not a felt that this implied an unduly

Moreover they are an abaten- direct political problem, for discriminatory policy, but their

potence.

tionist Party, Ireland has no authority, 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 Lordsions, the British Government cate armed force in the "struggle ward the State by staying at Atenby, High Commissioner,

issued a statement of policy in for national freedom and for the home in carpet slippers by the Imade a definite promise, in which it was clearly stated that economic liberation of the people" fireside instead of helping to ia that their power is on the wane, govern the country. The abaten proclamation, to the peoples of the Arabs "do not at present In their speeches and pamphlets tionist technique Is nearly dend, on the Irish mentality, Syria and Palestine, of "national possess any constitutional means they talk the old familiar langu

Up to a short time ago there Governments and Administra- for putting their views on socint age. But a new generation is

were a number of Communist organisation 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."

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 and advocated an anti-God tions." Unhappily, the Arabs, large-scale influx of Jews into R.A. whom I met appeared to Blue Shirt Movement made great crusade. The LR.A. Itself was the country, with the result that me to have lost much of their headway; particularly among the although constituting more than

the Arab rural communities have zest for a revolutionary crusade. sons of well-to-do farmers hit by split in two by Communists and anti-Communists within the move- the "economic war" with Eng- ment. ninety per cent. of the popula-boon gradually rendered land- They lack real forcefulness, of land. That movement has now tion of Palestine, were not re- less. This is the position which mind. Their intellectual concep- almost ceased to exist.

Spor Eire ("Save Ireland") tions are out of date and it is

was launched as an offshoot of cognised in the Mandate, which the Royal Commission has to clear that they have not thought

It was virtually destroyed, by the I.R.A. The Cosgrave Gov- General ernment banned it and the Catho- even emits all reference to their face.

clear that out the full implications of either the casting out naine. Professor John Gare British policy will have to be their political or their economic O'Duffy from the official United le Church condemned it. Tho Ireland Party and by the reso- orthodox leaders within the I.R.A. programme. modified, and, as Professor Gar-

lute efforts of the Government shied away. Some of the more stang, in a most informative

stang contends, that the Marid It is true that they are still to suppress, militant action. extreme men loft the I.R.A. and

arma supplied with article on the Arab grievances,

ate will have to be re-worded so secretly in different parts of the The Labour Party has little started a rival organisation in the points out that the Arab requests to purge it of its ambiguities country. I was told that not long hope of increasing its represen- name of the Republican Congress Labour Party, which now contains most agoa consignment of machine tation. The In 1922 for the creation of aand of the possibility of being guns and small arms (from Eng- deputies now in the Dail are likely of the human violence still left in

Irish political life. 'national independent Govern, unjust either to Jows or Araba: land) was as large as the defen- to be re-elected.

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