IRISH CRISIS

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 3, Issue 650, 30 September 1933, Page 5

IRISH CRISIS

JAIL CROWDED FOR OPENING t OF THE CENSURE | DEBATE ] SOME STRAIGHT TALK | (Rec. 7.10 p.m.) Duhlin, Sept. 29. Ihe Dail was crowded for the openI of the censure debate and there | a tense atmosphere. A dozen deies wore blue shirts and blaclc ties. ir. McDermott, leader of the mers' Party, condemned the opssive measures adopted by the remment in enforcing the Public ety Act. He said that powers of ;and death should not be entrusted a few military officers unless on grounds of overwhelming national essity. No crimes could be proved inst the National Guard and Laff's attitude in opposing the monvas contemptible and degrading. ir. Norton, the Labour leader, resd that it was impossible to overi the military charaeter of the ffd which had borrowed its salute » Hitler. General O'Duffy's sches were those of a would-be ator. Ir. P. J. Ruttledge, Minister of lice, said that the Government had attempted to interfere with polimovemens but would not toler-semi-military movements. The 'ement was not going to allow I war to develop. The blue shirt > a military emblem. O'Higgins: "The Government ired when it sees blue." he debate flared up when Mr. de ara intereeted that the Governit had direct information that leral Mulcahy had recently had rersations at Glasgow with the ish Minister of Defence. leneral Mulcahy indignantly deided a tribunal to investigate the fge. Ir. de Yalera rose and was greetby Opposition uproar and shouts "don't wriggle — don't be a cow- " His voice was drowned in the iemonium. inally Mr. de Yalera declared that welcomed General Mulcahy's nnent as the last thing he desired ear was that the Government's inaation was correct. He gladly ied to the appointment of a trid to investigate the matter. Coning Mr. de Valera said that the icement of the Public Safety Act inevitable in view of the conia of the eountry. The Governt had tried a policy of patience. ealing with the Irish Republican iy, he said that it was a movethuilt up in the past but that it a more diffieult thing to deal with ecent movement like the Army irades' Association. He denied Mr an's assertion that the Public ;ty Act had been enforeed at the est of the I.R.A.