Word: citizenships
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Awaiting a firing squad in Dublin's Kilmainham Jail, Dev was reading St. Augustine's Confessions when he learned that his death sentence had been commuted, possibly because of his U.S. citizenship. He was the only battalion leader to survive the Rising. Amnestied in 1917, he returned to a hero's welcome in Dublin and leadership of a new party, Sinn Fein (Ourselves Alone). When the 1920-21 guerrilla war against Britain's "Black and Tan" occupying army led to Ireland's partition into Ulster and the Irish Free State, De Valera joined the "irreconcilables...
...held on bail totaling $700,000. They are also expected to be indicted on New York State kidnaping charges, which carry a minimum no-parole 15-year prison sentence. The bail was set so high because the prosecution claimed that either might flee to Ireland. Both have dual citizenship and the U.S. has no mutual extradition treaty with Ireland...
Pointed Ceremony. Much of Ford's week was devoted to the ceremonial aspects of the presidency. He crossed the Potomac River to the Lee-Custis mansion in Arlington to "correct a 110-year oversight of American history" by making a formal restoration of citizenship to Confederate General Robert E. Lee. The most pointed ceremony of the week occurred on Saturday -Ford's anniversary day in office. The President and Betty Ford had dinner with Vice President Nelson Rockefeller and his wife Happy. The get-together was a gesture of support for Rockefeller, who has recently come under fire...
Southerners scored a sentimental victory last week when the House, following the Senate, voted to restore full citizenship to General Robert E. Lee, a mere 110 years after he had applied for it. Another old Southern question was not so tranquilly disposed of, namely the question of black citizens' right to vote...
General Lee, whose application for citizenship included a pledge to "faith fully support all laws and proclamations which have been made during the existing rebellion with reference to the emancipation of slaves," would not have objected...