The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1922-06-27
IRELAND FACING
TEST Of ABILITY,
PREMIER INSISTS
Failure of Free State Means
Failure to Govern
ENDORSEMENT OF POLICY
De Valera Bitterly Arraigned as
Evil Genius by Secretary
Churchill
ENDORSEMENT OF POLICY

London, June 27.-The government
last night won virtual vote of con-
fidence on its Irish policy, when
"diehard" motion proposed by Sir
Frederick Banbury, Unionist, for
reduction Of the Chief secretary for
Ireland salary as an expression Of
disapproval of the governments pol
icy and failure to afford police pro-
lection for Field Marshal Wilson,
was defeated. The vote was 342 to
IL.
Winston Spencer Churchill. secre-
tary for the co onies, in his state
ment on Irish affairs, made 1t clear
that the imperial government would
expect tie provisional government,
now that it had secured the peoples
mandate, to take the necessary steps
to assert its complete authority, and
with equal frankness emphasized
that the British government would
not allow the coercion of Ulster by
tie South--in fact, that failure to OBJ
serve the treaty would mean the
British government resuming com.
plete freedom of action.
Premier Lloyd George, in brief
speech winding up the debate, re-
peated the familiar arguments in sup
port of the government policy and
contended that the Irish provisional
government now had the people OF
ireland behind it, and what II did or
failed to do would be the real test Of
whether II was fit to govern.
The question of Field Marshal Will
sons murder did not figure in the de-
bate as largely as might have been
ant cipated. Home Secretary S1ortt
was able to show that the ministers
and others from whom police protec-
tion had been withdrawn had ac.
quiesced in the withdrawal.
Loud cheers greeted the announced
result OF the vote, giving a substan-
tial majority for the government.
Churchill. rising to make his prom
ised statement on Irish affairs In the
Commons, said the government de.
sired the freest and fullest debate
and on that could be terminated by a
lewiston.
He declared he did not hesitate TO
say that all the horrors that had oc.
Cured In Belfast were due to the or.
ganization in northern territory OF
two divisions of the Irish Republican
army and the continuous efforts by
extreme partisans of the South to
break down the Ulster government
and force Ulster against her will tc
come under the rule Of Dublin.
The colonial secretary said the i'm
perial government had supplied the
northern Irish government with so.
600 stand of arms for its defense
He added tiat the northern govern
ment would be supported effectively
and at all costs in any attempt that
might be made to coerce 1t into sub
mission to the South.
The Sim Fein, Churchill declared
had to realize that they would never
win Ulster except by her own free
WILL and that the more they Kicket
the worse il would he for them. Hi
said the imperial government woulC
make ii absolutely clear that any at
tempt from southern forces to breal
into the territory of Northern Irelant
would be met and repulsed by i'm
lperial power,
"The influence which De Valera oil
tanned over the militant Republicans
section" the secretary asserted, Zen
abled him to defy the provisional go
ernment in many parts Of the countr.
and create a series OF criminal epi
sodes and destroy the capacity OF tn,
provisional government to hold
free election. The provisional gov
ernment consequently was forced Il
make further accommodations witt
De Valera by postponing the election
by three months--an arrangement
in which the British government wa
obliged to acquiesce,
But De Valera, had no soone
made this promise than he proceed
ed to break 1t. Many other persons
even more irresponsible than d
Valera. sprang forward to asser
Themselves and claim share. Every
thing was done by De Valera and hi
, friends to weaken and discredlt In
provisional government and embro
southern Ireland with Ulster"
: Churchill admitted that it woul
be idle to pretend that the hostillt
Of the mutinous portion of the arm
was not met by an equally combativ
and bel icose spirit on the part of tn
Orangemen of the north, and thes
! reprisals and counter.reprisals 500
built but gastly score on bot
sides; in which the numerical
!, weaker Catholics had undoubtedl
suffered the more, and had abo,
u double as many casualties as tn
= protestants.
Remarking that 1t was monstror
to make political capital out of til
police failure to protect Field Mars
:, al Wilson, the secretary said all sue
/ protection for ministers and Other
Y in England had been withdrawn la
!. January under TIE recommendatio
$ of Scotland Yard and with the co
currence of all concerned. altToue
tndedunte nrntactinn had hpan yive