Leaf 6 recto

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ally had taken us up and given us his
blessing. This was a distant 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
Wolf Tone or Ferrian type. These growing stronger
by degrees came on with a rush in 1914 & 1915
and ended by capturing the League, its officers its
machinery & its money. I suppose the fulness
of the time for such capture had come. But
I at least had consistently held out against

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ally had taken us up and given us his
blessing. This was a distant 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
Wolf Tone or Ferrian type. These growing stronger
by degrees came on with a rush in 1914 & 1915
and ended by capturing the league, its officers its
machinery & its money. I suppose the fulness
of the time for such capture had come. But
I at least had consistently held out against