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Efforts of the Irish nation to tame itself and settle down climaxed at Dublin last week with tense drama in the Dail. Everyone remembers how after World War I the untamed, scraggly-haired, wild-eyed figure of Eamon de Valera barnstormed among Irish groups all over the U. S., spouting treason to George V, proclaiming himself "President of the Irish Republic" and passing the hat for its "Irish Republican Army," whose stalwarts the British Government treated as "common criminals, murderers and cutthroats." Today, tame and respected Eamon de Valera is a shrewd conciliator of Great Britain and a pillar...
That "jackets of American dollars" now finance the I. R. A. was charged by Minister of Justice Gerald Boland in the Dail. He said that $8,000 in U. S. bills was found on a single I. R. A. trooper, but when M. P.s wanted to know who in the U. S. is sending all this money, he snapped: "We have a shrewd idea, but we don't want to mention names...
...There will be only one Government functioning - that one freely elected by the people!" cried Prime Minister de Valera in a fighting speech. In the lobbies of the Dail, meanwhile, it was whispered that I. R. A. plans were for a combined insurrection and war to overthrow the Governments of both Eire and Northern Ireland, sweep away the intervening fron tier and proclaim the Irish Republic - a move which Great Britain would certainly answer by sending an expeditionary force to Ireland as she did to crush the "Easter Rebellion" of 1916. Thus what members of the Dail faced last week...
About all worried "Dev" could do was call the Dail (Chamber of Deputies) to meet this week and give the police wider powers to arrest and detain suspects. The latest outburst of I. R. A. terror ism dates from Dec. 14, when two young Irishmen were sentenced to death in England at the Birmingham Assizes, for planting bombs at Coventry...
...Some of the Irish wanted to help some of the Jews. A committee of Catholics and Jews was formed in Dublin under Frank Fahy, Speaker of the Dail, to make a public appeal for funds to rescue and house 20 families of German and Austrian refugees...