Word: belfast
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...Numerous eyewitnesses reached London last week with facts about doings in Belfast which had been omitted by British newsorgans unwilling to record the first public demonstration against the King since he came to the Throne...
Normally the Orangemen of Northern Ireland are fanatical adherents of the Crown, regard it as a Protestant bulwark protecting them from their Catholic enemies in the Free State. First with astonishment, then with fury, Belfast Orangemen read a recent prognostication in Reynolds Illustrated News of London that the new King-Emperor may assert himself by trying to end the feud which divides his Irish subjects and bring the whole island under one Government. If His Majesty had any such ideas the Orangemen had no use for him, and up in Belfast they promptly raised a huge portrait of Edward VIII...
Pictures showing His Majesty beating an Orangeman's drum when Prince of Wales, were next burned at Belfast amid Irish jeers. Finally through Belfast streets rumbled a float on which an effigy of Irish Free State President Eamon de Valera dressed as a nurse attended a baby carriage in which sat an effigy of King Edward sucking a bottle of liquid labeled "DOPE...
...Beast!" cried Cinemactress Ann Harding as she caught a man peeking into her 7-year-old daughter Jane's stateroom when the S. S. Duchess of Atholl called at Belfast. No sooner had the ship reached Great Britain than a flock of British newshawks descended on Miss Harding, almost got into fist fights with chivalrous passengers who went to her aid, forced her into hysterics long before she reached Liverpool. There she sent Jane ashore separately in disguise, narrowly foiled a fake kidnapping conceived by a British tabloid. Wailed Cinemactress Harding at Belfast: "I'll never permit Jane...
...letter of condolence on George V's death was sent by President Eamon de Valera to Queen Mary but in Dublin, on the advice of Irish jurists, the President found it "unnecessary" to proclaim Edward VIII King of the Free State Irish. In Belfast he was duly proclaimed King of the Northern Irish...