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...keep Northern Ireland loyal to King George's Crown and cool toward ranting President Eamon de Valera in the (Southern) Irish Free State, prudent Mother Britain is lavish with gifts. Last winter Belfast went wild when Edward of Wales arrived to open a $5,000,000 present, the massive Northern Ireland Parliament Building, located inconveniently far out of town on Stormont Hill (TIME, Nov. 28). Lest Republicans in the Free State become too irate, His Royal Highness' speech was not broadcast...
...such gifts are made under the Brit ish Parliament's Government of Ireland Act of 1920. Last week came another. Quietly at Belfast, because relations be tween the Mother Country and the Free State are now very tense, there were opened last week the magnificent Royal Courts of Justice which involved a pres ent to Northern Ireland of more than
...three historic draw matches. In the third Muldoon broke Whistler's collarbone. In 1881 Muldoon discovered John L. Sullivan, arranged his first New York boxing match at Harry Hill's. Eight years later, when Sullivan was world's champion, Muldoon trained him at his farm in Belfast, N. Y., curbed his drinking with a baseball bat. In 1900 Muldoon opened his famed Hygienic Institute at Purchase, N Y., where many a celebrity, including Theodore Roosevelt, Chauncey Depew, Elihu Root and Elbert Hubbard, went to be reconditioned. His chief gifts to athletics were the medicine ball...
...possible, TIME, that you do not know the Prince of Wales has a "double" who went to Belfast? That small, simple fact explains why the Irish acted as they did. Of course English papers cannot mention such things but I have spent enough of my life with English people who know to know...
Half an hour later, the villagers boosted Patrick up to the Castle wall from which he waved goodbye as they shouted "Come back again!" Next day British headlines and dispatches gave the impression that Patrick had "mingled with crowds" in Belfast (not in a hand-picked village), talked of the "momentous consequences," made much of a surprise visit by H. R. H. next day to a linen thread works at Lisburn where he was "mobbed by laughing colleens...