On Friday, June 9th, Mr. Collins and Mr. De Valera
were present at a meeting in Dublin held in the interest of the panel candidates, that is to say, the candidates agreed upon by the, Collins-De Valera coalition. What Mr. Collinea said :-about Northern Ireland was rather ominous. . H remarked: that there were many elements in the North who did not want to see a dismembered Ireland. These elements, he admitted, must not be "forced into hostility," and he recognized that a certain amount of local Government was " of. no' more harm • in the North than in the West," provided there was no real• severance. But then he added, "a body may continue to live without a particular limb, but the amputated limb simply decays and withers. That is the attitude of Ireland to its limb in the North-East, and I do not think the sensfble elements in the North-East will fail to grasp that."
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