PERVADING FEAR
HAUNTED ASSASSINS i i | IRISH GUNMEN’S IMPULSE, DiE VALERA DENOUNCED. (Times Cable.) (Received 10.15 a.m.) LONDON, March .13. Mr Patrick Hogan, Irish Free State Minister of Agriculture, in a speech at Dublin fiercely attacked gunmen. He said: “Everybody is asking what is the Do Valera Party’s attitude concerning recent murders. I will tell you in one. word—they arc afraid of murderers.”
Three years ago, he sa 5/1, D<* Valera enunciated the doctrine that the issue between majority rule and minority right had to be bloodily fought out. How could a man wim said that condemn a murder?
Mr Hogan declared that the origin of recent shooting was due to a section of the Fianna Fail Party. He believed that men who could only influence by fear were influenced themselves by fear. As a fear-ridden party they were afraid of the past and afraid of the future.
“I want to tell them,” Mr Hogan concluded, “that there are white men \ * in Ireland who have never looked over the sights of a revolver, but they are not going to be cowed by any assassins. ”
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Northern Advocate, 14 March 1929, Page 5
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