FOREIGN BASES IN IRELAND

Waikato Times, Volume 118, Issue 19631, 18 July 1935, Page 11

FOREIGN BASES IN IRELAND

GENERAL O’DUFFY'S HINT. Speaking in Dublin at a gathering of 'Blueshlrts who remained loyal to him after he severed his 'connection with liho main body, General O Duffy said he and his followers repudiated Mr de Valera’s assurance 'to Britain that Ireland would not toe used as a base fob an attack on 'Britain by a foreign Power. A republic, General O Duffy declared, was the objective of his organisation, and it would be in the best interests of the country If that fact was recognised by all parties. Northern Ireland was either part ol Ireland or part of England. Partition was a denial of the existence of the Irish nation. It was of no benefit to Northern Ireland, the Free State or Great Britain, and-the Irish question would never be settled while one Inch of Irish soil was outside the jurisdiction of the Irish people. He did not believe that the North could be coerced. Ulster would be loyal to Britain only so long as it suited them.