Mr. De Valera is once more challenging the Treaty and
of course wants to, upset the whole existing. regime —the settlement with Great Britain, the oath of allegiance to the King, and the Boundary Agreement with Northern Ireland. If Mr. De Valera should succeed the whole Irish question would be reopened and Englishmen would become acutely aware of it. Fortunately he is not likely to succeed. The National League and the Farmers' Party are both cautious, and even the Labour Party has become less and less 'disinclined to dispute the Treaty. Mr. Cosgrave really deserves to succeed, for he, has been brave and straightforward. The greatest of the dangers that, threaten him is that people may vote. for a change simply because it is a change. They are only too conscious that Mr. Cosgrave's Government, though it has brought quiet, has not brought prosperity.
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