10 JULY 1959, Page 1

TOP USING SUCH negative words as

"anti-partition"' the new Prime Minister of the Republic of Ireland said last week, 'and call for national unity instead'. Already, it seems, Mr. de Valera's departure from politics is hav- ing its effect. Mr. de Valera was not the most intransigent of the anti-parti- tionists; when his party was out of