HUNGER STRIKE
POLITICAL PRISONERS IN DUBLIN IN IMMINENT DANGER OF DEATH Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright DUBLIN, November 10. Mr do Valera announced in tbo Dail that four hunger striking political prisoners in Dublin gaols were in imminent danger of death, but in view of the larger interests involved the Government regretted that it could not release them. He was replying to a Labour Party resolution demanding the prisoners’ release. Mr de Valera emphasised that only by the powers of arrest and detention could the Government secure _ the people’s safety from those in a position to bring the country to disaster. Of the two evils, the Government had chosen the lesser, the one of seeing men die rather than that the whole community’s safety should be endangered. Any other decision would amount to abdication.
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Evening Star, Issue 23421, 11 November 1939, Page 10
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132HUNGER STRIKE Evening Star, Issue 23421, 11 November 1939, Page 10
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