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...Belfast bowed stiffly last week to Dublin. The Rt. Hon. Viscount Craigavon, Premier of Northern Ireland, revoked the decree which has barred from Northern Ireland that notorious person Eamon de Valera...
...such an announcement were the most natural thing in the world, the Government of Northern Ireland issued this communiqué last week in Belfast...
Resigned. Owen Cosby Philipps, Lord Kylsant, 1st Baron of Carmarthen, 67, Chairman of 40 steamship lines (including Royal Mail, White Star, Union Castle) and building companies, a bank, a railroad, an insurance company; from the chairmanship of Harland & Wolff. Ltd. (?12,000,000 Belfast shipbuilders). When shareholders commented on his multifarious activities and companies in March, he retorted: "I do not consider 40 as many...
...atrocity" propaganda and blood-and-thunder speeches ad lib to increase his troops' morale. Yet he can take stock thus of the ultimate end of discipline, of all soldierly training: "The net result of the barren, glorious bloody battle of Thiepval is that over 700 men of the West Belfast battalion of the Royal Irish Rifles prove their ability to subordinate matter to mind. Intellectual discipline had triumphed...
...pass through that microphone. With no official authorization whatever, they insisted that His Majesty was going to use the dedication of India House as an opportunity to make the speech of his life. Is not the Indian Empire on a brink? They recalled the occasion in 1921 when at Belfast the Royal appeal "Forgive and forget!" did much to end the Irish War. They prophesied that at India House the Emperor of India would pour such words into the Royal microphone as might well solve the Indian Situation...