Leaf 6 recto

ally had taken us up and given us his
blessing. This was a distinct milestone in the
early progress of the League.

There was never any trouble about
keeping “National” politics as expounded by the
members of Parliament out of the League, and I
never heard even a mention of evicted tenants.
The trouble was to keep out politics of the
Wolfe Tone or Fenian type. These growing stronger
by degrees came on with a rush in 1914 and 1915
and ended by capturing the League, its officers its
machinery and its money. I suppose the fulness
of the time for such capture had come. But
I at least had consistently held out against