IRELAND'S AIM

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 288, 30 July 1932, Page 2

IRELAND'S AIM

YOUTH OF FREE STATE DRIFTING TOWARD COMMUNISM. LONDON, July 16. Communism of a nev/ type adapted to the needs of the Irish Free Stata is the ideal of the younger section of Mr. de Valera's followers, especially the militant body, says the Dublin correspondent of the Manchester Guardian. Mr. de Valera disavows Russian Communism because of its anti-Chris-tian and irreligious flavour, but to men with no property — especially land-less younger sons who are deprived of the alternative of emigration to the United States and are swelling the ranlcs of tha Irish ReP'uhlican Army — Ohrijfan Ccmmunism has many attractions. If nobody is permittad to own more than 100 aeres or possess an income exceeding ten times that of agricultural labourers, they argue, there appears to be a substantial surplus for division among those assisting to introduce the new system. Mr. de Valera's economic doctrine, the corraspondent adds, though it has been popularly and inaccurately described as Christian Communism, condemns capitalism, large scale industries, and international trade. It aims at the diffusion of private property throughout the population, encouraging local small-scab rural industries and fixing tha rate of profit, and fair wagss. It discourages luxury imports because these necessitate paying the foreigner. Thus, if the damp Irish climate prevents the production of whaat of American quality, the consumer must acquire a tasta for Irish wheat or eat more porridge. He must also foreswear tea, oranges, bananas and motor cars.