PLANS FOR FUTURE.
LIFE IN IRELAND
GENERAL O’DUFFY’S IDEALS.
LONDON, Sept. 11. “I want to smash the rule of the gun in Ireland and build up a magnificent body of youth, which will keep law and order bv non-military methods and promote social life in villages,” said General O’Duffy during an interview with tho Dublin correspondent of th© Daily Telegraph. “Talk of the Blue Shirts being armed with revolvers and rifles in all buncombe,” he said. “Nevertheless inhabitants of isolated villages feel secure in th© thought that there - are thirty or forty strapping youths in their midst who will keep order with their strong right arms. They will be like th© Fascists in many of their ideals, but completely unlike them in methods. Stern discipline will be maintained, but they will make the lives of the villagers bright by the promotion of concerts, games and sports. “The first thing the party will do will be to end the disastrous trade war, seek an agreement with Britain, then seek to gain the sympathy of the six counties and bring about the unity of Ireland. This can be done by sane government.
“I believe a general election is near,” General O’Duffy added. “Mr de Valera will be defeated soon 'after the Dail reassembles in October.”
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LIII, Issue 244, 12 September 1933, Page 7
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213PLANS FOR FUTURE. Manawatu Standard, Volume LIII, Issue 244, 12 September 1933, Page 7
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