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...Republicans were stated to be in a difficult position, having spent a great deal of the estimated $150,000 Mr. de Valera raised earlier in the year in the U. S., which is said to have aided him importantly in capturing 44 seats at the last election. Observers said that it will be difficult for him to raise money now and that the party is likely to suffer as a result. However, Mr. de Valera announced that he is well prepared, and as an indication of the strenuous fight he intends to wage, Republican conventions for naming candidates were held...
...declaration, since become famous as Document No. 2, Mr. de Valera, set forth the aims of his Republican group: government vested solely in the Irish people; association with full Dominion status with the states of the British Commonwealth of Nations; recognition of "His Britannic Majesty" as the head of the association. This, said Mr. de Valera will bring the "Republic to the brow of the precipice." His proposals were refused, however. They meant, in effect, a separate sovereignty for Ireland instead of recognizing the common citizenship of the Commonwealth. Such conditions were not acceptable to the London government...
Last fall the status was revised and it now meets all Mr. de Valera's conditions. The last Imperial Conference* (TIME, Nov. 1 et seq.), by changing the King's title gave Ireland nominal full sovereignty within the Commonwealth; for by that decision George V became as much King of Ireland as he is King of England, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, etc. Today Irishmen in the Free States who are loyal to the treaty toast the King not as the English monarch but as the King of Ireland...
...Valera, again a wholehearted Republican, sees no change. He wants only "external association" with the Commonwealth (and not a membership within it) that will not bind Ireland to a King who never even visits the Free State. The difference is difficult to explain, but is best summed up by contrasting "external association" with internal association, and the seeming impossibility of having a republic in the monarchical Commonwealth...
...future of the Free State, there does not appear to be any ground whatever for them. Nobody need expect Erin to become a republic overnight. The Republicans are practically deadlocked in the Dail, for the rest of the House is overwhelmingly pro-treaty and a coalition for Mr. de Valera on the Republican issue is impossible. Thomas Johnston made that much plain last week, and his party is nearest in political complexion to the de Valera-ites...