IRISH CABINET DEFIED BY OPPOSITION

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LXI, Issue 10925, 27 September 1932, Page 3

IRISH CABINET DEFIED BY OPPOSITION

Anxious Period for

Ministers. effect of armies. London. Sept. 26 “I defy them. Let them do their worst. I\e are going to carry on in spite of threats of intimidation.” c eclared Dr T. F. O’Higgins, foundel of the White Army, in replying to threats of Ministers that criticism of the Government was tantamount to treason. * Moreover, he added, the White Army was going to call things by their proper names. A coward would be called coward and a blackguard a blackguard. General R. J. Mulcahy, formerly Minister of Local Government, in the Cosgrave Cabinet, similarly accepted the Government’s challenge. Speaking at Bray, where members of the White Army ejected a hostile section of the audience, he declared: “Nobody supposes that Cosgrave and Mulcahy will be imprisoned. Firstly, because Mr de Valera has scrupulously refrained from person-1 al abuse and dislikes his followers’ f ulminations, and, secondly, the loaders of both parties are restrained by the responsibility due to the existence of the Irish Republican Army and the White Army. Everyone is desiring to prevent their clashing.”

Meanwhile, Ministers are anxiously and hastily attempting to prop the collapsing structure, fearing that Labour discontent will lead to cooperation with farmers, which is a new phenomenon in Irish politics.