Ulster and Eire (1939)

07 January, 1939

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The English Conservative Party can no longer be regarded as a major obstacle to Irish unity. There is still, it is true, a strong Unionist element, which would receive the support of a section of the English Press, but the proposition, profoundly believed in Irish Republican circles, that the policy of the English Government is still the old one of divide et impera is scarcely plausible. It would be more true to say that the English Conservative Party and, a fortiori, the other parties, would be much relieved if the whole dispute were settled.

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