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IRISH FREE STATE: Up & Down O'Duffy

Up & Down O'Duffy

Grown overconfident after his defy to the British Government last month, Free State President Eamon de Valera lost a trick last week to his Fascist foe blue-shirted General Owen O'Duffy. Last fortnight de Valera men stopped the blue-shirted General on his way to address a County Mayo meeting of the blue-shirted party he had just renamed the "League of Youth" after the President banned it as the Young Ireland Association."

The police chased O'Duffy across a plowed field, lost him to a crowd finally nabbed him but not...

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