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anything but a pure language movement, and
had reiterated to the public over and over
again that the League was only a language
movement, and that so long as I was in
it I would never consent to its being made
anything else. It was on the strength of
this attitude that we won over men like
Sir Horace Plunkett ^{and Cardinal Logue} & won over the schools
or at least made much way on in them. But
I myself was pledged before the country, pledged
to the very teeth, to keep the League out of
politics, and I had absolutely no choice whatever
left but to retire from it when I thought
it was becoming political. I accordingly com-
-mitted Hari-Kari with as good a grace as