Eire Government’s Attitude Discussed In Senate
(Received 2 p.m.) DUBLIN, July 26. Mr J. McDermott, Labour leader, moved in the Eire Senate that the country is entitled to an explicit statement from the Government as to the justifiability or the expediency of the bombings. Many people in Britain and Eire believed that the Government secretly sympathised with the outrages. It was the Ministers’ duty, he said, to make their own view clear.
He was sure Mr De Valera totally disapproved, but it was time to claim disapproval in unmistakable language. Mr Desmond Fitzgerald demanded not a statement, but action against a minority that was dragging Eire to the dust.
Mr De Valera declared that it was clear the Government had only one attitude. Authority had been challenged, and legislation introduced to combat the challenge. The activities of the 1.R.A., if allowed to continue, would lead to anarchy, “but we see two sides, and know the wrong done by partition, whicfi has led to unfortunate occurrences in England.”
There was no excuse for bombings, and the Government did not sympathise with them, as they were undoubtedly a setback to Eire. Mr McDermott withdrew his motion, as he was satsified that Mr De Valera had indicated the utter futility of the outrages.
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Northern Advocate, 28 July 1939, Page 7
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