HEATED SCENES

Wairarapa Daily Times, 3 March 1934, Page 5

HEATED SCENES

MN FREE STATE DAIL TWO DEPUTIEiS SUSPENDED. Press Association Electric Telegraph—Copyright -DUBLIN, Friday. In a lively debate on the second reading of the anti-Blue Shirt Bill, two deputies were suspended, Mr Anthony '(lndependent)i shouting as he left the Chamber: “I am not sorry to leave this pack of hooligans.'’ Mr Dcrrig, Minister of Education, alleged that the Blue Shirts were associated with the non-payment of rates. They boycotted farmers and carried on traffic in arms. Mr MacDermott denied the allegations and attacked the Republican Army, declaring that it enjoyed raiding houses and threatening even to murder people, but not even Mr de Valera definitely said that the Republican Army should not exist. Mr de Valera, in an hour’s speech, made a general denunciation of the opposition’s impatience in refusing to wait until the removal of the oath. The passage of time had eliminated the motives for the existence of the Republican Army. If the Opposition would quit provocative Blue Shirt tomfoolery they would have a joint force to preserve order. He added: “The bitterness of civil war is in many hearts, and not much fire is needed to make our problem more terrible than that faced by other countries.” The debate is unfinished. NO DANGER OF COMMUNISM. (Received Saturday, 9.45 a.m.) LONDON, Friday. “There is danger in every country, arising from hardship and discontent, but Communism will not be stopped by the parading of Blue Shirts. The police assure me that there is no danger of Communism in Ireland,” declared Mr E. de Valera in the Dail. “There is the same filthy propaganda now as in 1922. They are now suggesting that I am of Jewish origin. As far as I know, there is not a single drop of Jewish blood in my veins. I am not one of those who wish to attack the Jews. They also speak of a Spanish vendetta. That word has never been associated with Spain. Will you not be decent enough to stop this, vile sort of propaganda?” ' " Mr James Dillon said that the Blue Shirts were not armed. Mr E. de Valera: “Arms are available, and can only be for the purpose of civil war.” Mr Cosgrave said that the farmers had established the. Blue Shirts because they were losing markets and stocks, and Mr de Valera’s only reply was “Suffer on,” “If the public cannot rely on police protection,” said Mr Cosgrave, “why should it be denied the help of the Blue Shirts?” ‘ The closure was applied, and the Anti-Blue Shirts Bill read a second time bv 80 votes to 60.