BLUE SHIRT BILL
ANGRY SCENE IN BAIL
IRELAND AND ENGLAND
(Received March 1, 2 p.m.) DUBLIN, February 28. Angry scenes occurred in the Dail when Mr. Patrick Hogan opened his speech on -the second reading of the' Bill prohibiting the Blue Shirts by saying ' that Mr. Scan Lemass, : Minister of Commerce, was a ''cheap-jack politician and never would be anything else." Uproar followed, de Valera Party members shouting-, "Dirty little rat." Mr. Hogan continued: Give the Blue Shirts another year and blackguardism will cease.- Mr. de Valera,: who goes round Ireland calling us traitors and accusing us of taking Englandfs part, is primarily responsible for the breakdown of the Free State's law. I have more respect for a little blackguard who raids a house in Cork than ' for de Valcra. England is a "-great country. Aide Valeraite interjected, "Was." Mr. Hogani^What's the use of us barking,like terriers at the heels, of a country with. 40,000,000 people, .whose greatness is found in respect for law? ' The debate was adjourned.
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Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 51, 1 March 1934, Page 13
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