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Interviewing: O'Duffy

A journalist has Just returned to London from Ireland, where he had an Interview with General” O'Duffy At the Ivy-clad house in Merrion- square, Dublin, which is the head- quarters of "Fine Gael,” the `new; United Ireland Party.

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large, well-lit room, where the quickly attained, we shall not be high French windows are the only fencelessness with equanimity. The able to contemplate our present de- remants of former distinction. The facts ought to be known,

huge gilt mirrors are sadly tarnish-'

Our Lack Of Air Liners We have thirteen Aghter squadrons at home, and their

ed. Chairs and the General's Lord Jellicoe has just stated that operations would be assisted by plain deal table are the sole pieces our Navy is inadequate to protect ground artillery, and by such "paa- our trade; Lord Hailsham says that sive defences" as balloon “aprons.” our Army is really only an Imperial We have no "aprons," nor have we police force. Stronger language

In his public appearances Eoin would be fully justified regarding ready material for them. [O'Duffy_reads his speeches from a the Air Force.

We have at our disposal a' req

type-written manuscript. His de- In war the Air Force would givemarkable searchlight known as the livery is far too rapid, and many and take the first blows. It might "grid." It would much fucrea of his words are lost. But in pri- be strong enough to be the nation's the difficulties of night air raiders. vate conversation he talks with de sure shield against what might be The Air Ministry has not acquired liberation.

irretrievable disaster.

even one of these new searchlights, nor has the War Office.

"For some years," he told the newspaperman "I fought against"

If our Air Force is not strong

the English. But in. 1921 I accept enough, and ready, destruction, dis- ed the Treaty and became head of organisation, and panic would in a the Free State police. In that ca- few hours determine the issue pacity I organised 900 posts against us.

throughout the country and was London Exposed To Air Attacks

¡able to guarantes safety of life and,

property to our people.”

811ffi- longer

With London, and our factories,

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While our Air Force has been starved, other countries'""'havm' been building up,' and it is evid- ent that our enfeeblement has increased the, dificulties' In the way of our recovery,

Civil aircraft are adaptable for

"Why did Mr. de Valera dismiss our railwaya, our depots and our certain military purposes, especial- you?" asked the journalist.

docks exposed to air attack, the ly for bombing. It is true they daya in

"Why? Because he had to plac- Navy, in the face of a victorious have not the climbing "and high cient; each branch, each tribu-jate hía Republican friends with my enemy air force, would lose it altitude performance necessary. In tary, must be separately ex-dismissal. Four times he asked freedom of movement and be par-military aircraft, but in the face plored. And so this world of me to come to see him. We talk-tially immobilised, and the Army of a numerically weak air force, hurry and bustle has ushered in ed until into the night. He offer would be checkmated.

with more than enough" on its an.age of specialisation, for even ed me other posts. But I was not There is one thing worse than hands in dealing with the enemy, the head of Goldsmith's immor-for sale."

war, and that is defeat. Yet our civil" aircraft in larre numbers. tal schoolmaster would be un- The General was asked about the Air Force is being starved, al- would be very formidable........ able to carry all the knowledge Fascist tendencies attributed to

though more than any other A subject which has often pro associated with any one of the him O'Duffy's small, well-shaped country Great Britain is depen- little use against a strong Regular They would be of comparatively voked the serious thought of

sciences to-day. Specialisation hands drummed nervously on the dent upon supremacy in the air. Air Force, the possession of which members of the teaching profess the only solution of the pro-table-hands from one of which a In air strength Great Britain is is, therefore, not only the best sion has been re-opened by Drblem. The human brain is alfinger la missing, shot away by an the fifth among the Powers. The defence, but also the best insur- McRae, who, in a booklet issued wonderful thing, but it is dell-English bullet when the General latest estimates, indeed, place it by the Australian Council for cate and complex. It will hold tought in the 1. R. A. for de Valera. sixth. It ought to be first.

ance against war. Educational Research, remarks so much, and no more The Great

Plans For Power? 2014ğ

In an article in the Journal ofiters, but with very few exceptions.

Great Britain has inge fow; afge that "ability to skim is invalu-Artificer never Intended that all

"When we come into power, be the German League of Nations these are at all times scattered Dr. McRae things should be known to all says, "I shall govern constitution Union, Herr M. R. Nadolny, head of able to a student." means, of course, that there is in men: in the world of mind, what-ally. But I have one main purpose the German delegation at Geneva, over the air routes, and we may be sure, few, if any, would succeed in

every book a certain amount of ever may be the case in regard before me, and that is to end the laces the Powers in the following running the, gauntlet home if a "padding," and that the student to material things, there must rule of the gun in Ireland for order of total military aeroplanes, strained situation, suddenly 'arose,

To the question whether his new

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U.S.A..... 3,058 Japan .... 2,000

What has happened in the memories of 'most of us as to garde ships would happen with far greater Auddenness and speed in the air,

"The big 'commercial air, fleets of

should sift the wheat from the be a division of wealth, a sharing ever."

including reserves: France 4,500 Britain... 2,400 chaff, seizing on the essentials. of riches As if fn: obedience to That is to say, he should be some great law, this man's brain Party will not suffer from the ob responds to the call of science, vious sympathy of the English, he

Russia ... trained to notice the key sent and that man's is

2,700 Italy...... 1,500! a literary replies: "Is it my fault if Eng-

But his estimate for Great Bri- tences and paragraphs, and pass treasure-house. Or is it music, land shows sound taste and good

Įtain includes units of the Air Force lightly over the less important is it art, that sets the chords judgment in this matter?" matorial Indeed, thera has vibrating? But that is not all, There is a movement from out-in India, which are not at the dis: been such a development of edu-Science is multiform, literature side, O'Duffy springs to his feet, posal of the Air Ministry, and the France and Germany are nearly all cation, and the modern studentifs boundless, art is many-sided: "In that room," he says dramati-Air Forces of the Dominions, which at home and avaliable. is expected to read so many and so the brain selects and cally, indicating a door, "men are obviously could not help us here in books, that without the "ability specialises like the wind, it waiting for me who have suffered the hour of need. to skim" he would cut a rather bloweth where it listeth. There more and struggled harder for Ire- figure at examination is a lesson for us in all this. Itland's sake than the whole crowd

is the lesson which" "Dr. McRae over there." time. The subject is an exceed has, perhaps unconsciously, en. He sweeps his arm towards the ingly interesting zone, and opin deavoured to drive home in im- Government bulldings at the end lons will be divided about it. To pressing upon the student the of the Square.

all up the main streamwithout value of an "ability to skim." It any exploration of its tributaries has its drawbacks without doubt,

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Your Daily Smile.

Jenough, but much valuable coun-cularly school life-no other try will be missed. It is like course is open. Few students.

NOT THE SAME ONE, he tells us, read as rapidly: ha ***Just look at old Phillips over of the asking the reader

Forsyte Saga" to cut out the they should to gain "large mean there thoroughly enjoying him "trappings" and get on with the inga and it is to the "large self! And I've always understood

meanings" that education ought he was a woman bater "story," Think of all the delect to be directed. Having gained So, he is; but she's not with him able country that one would them, we can afterwards dire miss! And what, would the read our attention* tô méciali

er know about Galsworthy at the knowledge. Take aisi end of it? If, however, as the ample, the successful remarks of Dr. McRae imply, using the term in there is more reading matter in Sense He may dr.

had a special educati the books set for study than the student can reasonably be ex- schools, but he has

meanings in thò un pected to absorb, the question of

life--has relid' them shortening them for school pur of practical ex poses will have to be considered, non-essandals Knowledge Increases at an ever- as of "littici accelerating speed, but the span has fastened of our life is three score years the great pra and ten. We have learnt many That is the

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Coast Defence Force. Overseas

Great

Britain's fighter and bomber planes are the best in the |world, albeit the lead we had four His estimate also apparently In-We have the best personnel and |years ago is gradually closing up. cludes some Fleet Air Arm units the best-trained as regards Europe," which exist only on paper, and even although there is little to choos the University "squadrons," which between ours and that of the United are gon-military, ****

States in, these respects. We have-

highly efficient Air Staff, and a sound organisation.

Deducting these, Great Britain falls to the bottom of the list.

But the Home Defence Air But we cannot create a numer Force is not all we have starved ically strong

the Air Force in all its branches: a month or tw2h: Air Force In

and most certainly

The situation must be tackled vigorously, und » at once. We ought to have a three-y

We have only one Coast Defence it will be too late in any future war squadron, and that in overseas, to do it after fighting has begun. The Army has only five co-opera- tion squadrons at home, and thei all of one kind of equipment. THE Army has no attack format The Army has no mean ing a major air tish Expeditiona presumably? have to our starved: Home,

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