DE VALERA DEPRECATES CIVIL CONFLICT, BUT SAYS “FORCE IF NEEDED.”
UNITED REPUBLICAN IRELAND HIS AIM. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copj-right. Aus. and N.Z. Cable Association. LONDON, November 24. Mr de Valera, speaking in Dublin at the first convention of his new Republican Party, opposed the idea of achieving by’ force a united Republican Ireland, but if the road of peaceful progress and natural evolution waS barred, ihen the road of revolution would beckon, and would be taken. He had never said, and was not saying now, that force was not a legitimate weapon for a nation striving for freedom, but a nation within itself ought to be able to settle its policy without civil conflict.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 18014, 26 November 1926, Page 4
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