IRISH PEOPLE

Greymouth Evening Star, 13 April 1933, Page 12

IRISH PEOPLE

HATRED OF COMMUNISM LONDON, April 5. “The poorest people in Dublin are among the bitterest foes of Communism,” said Sir John Kirwan, of Wes tern Australia, describing the antiCommunistic riots witnessed during his fortnight’s visit to Dublin. “Ireland is still intensely religious, and the Communists’ efforts will never succeed.” Sir John Kirwan met Mr. de Valera and other leaders, and listened to debates in the Dail Eirean. The speeches he said, were tinged with bitterness, but there were fewer interjections than in Australia. A member of the Farmers’ party, deploring the econonic war with Britain, declared that the farmers would soon be so poor that they would have nothing left but their eyes, to weep with. The Fianna Fail members’ persistent contention that a majority vote of the people was always right provoked Mr. Burke, a brilliant barrister editor of the successor of the historic “Skibereen Eagle,” in his maiden speech, to retort, “Then what about Barabbas?”