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...success. Last month's rape of three little neutrals not so far away upset all that. Appalled Irishmen promptly forgot political enmities energetically cultivated since the civil war. Even William Cosgrave, who rose from saloonkeeper's tyke to President (1922-32), now Opposition Leader of the Dail, rose on his feet last week and plumped for his bitter...
...more than successful. His tour was timed perfectly to cash in on the mounting antipathy to the Versailles Treaty and the League of Nations. The suppression of the Dail Eireann by the British shocked Americans who thought they had fought the war for the self-determination of peoples. The hunger strike and eventual death of Terence MacSwiney, Lord Mayor of Cork, brought pro-Irish feeling to white heat and overshadowed for a time the U. S. Presidential contest...
...Valera promptly denounced the treaty his own men had signed, but the Dail Eireann approved it. Losing his immense popularity overnight, the onetime hero went, with the irreconcilable I. R. A., once again into armed revolt. Ireland counted more dead, among them Rory O'Connor, executed by the Irish Provisional Government and Michael Collins, mainstay for years of the rebellion movement, ambushed and shot by the I. R. A. For two years de Valera hid from not British but Irish forces. Die-hards stood by him through thick & thin, continuing to consider him the genuine President of the Irish...
...Irish Free State Legislature on condition that they would not have to swear to the oath of allegiance to George V. His proposal was promptly rejected, and he walked out of the Party to form the Fianna Fail (Militia of Destiny). Later he took the oath and entered the Dail. Old Republican "incorruptibles" shouted "Traitor!" They still do. It took six years for de Valera to complete his political comeback. When he did so, he began once more to lead the still-unfinished Irish march to complete independence...
Since the I. R. A. has more than once killed prominent Irishmen who voted to suppress it, the Dail strove to protect its members' lives by balloting in secret last week, and the vote was announced as 82-to-9 favoring de Valera's emergency bill. The Senate followed 62-to-7, and straight way de Valera sent out 5,000 Special Police armed with rifles to hunt down the I. R. A. All ports of Eire and the frontier with Northern Ireland were carefully manned and police with rifles took over what amounted to military guard...