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Placing the stamp of approval on his recently negotiated Anglo-Irish agreement, the voters of Eire in a general election for the Dail Eireann (lower house) last week returned lanky, professorial Prime Minister Eamon de Valera and his government to power for five more years. At last reports "Dev's" Fianna Fail party had captured 70 of the 138 seats, the Fine Gael party of his oldtime opponent, former President William T. Cosgrave, 40 seats, the Labor party six and the Independents seven. Under Eire's involved system of proportional representation, the final tabulation will be a matter...
Last week the Dail Eireann in Dublin passed by one vote a bill to create an arbitration board for civil service grievances. Two days later, Prime Minister de Valera surprised friend & foe alike by deciding that the vote showed lack of confidence. He dissolved the Dail Eireann, called for general elections on June...
...Valera lost no time in putting his achievements before the Dail Eireann (lower house). Four days after the pact was signed, the Opposition Fine Gael of William Cosgrave, who has now lost his chief difference with de Valera's party, joined with the Prime Minister's Fianna Fail supporters to vote approval. One diehard, James Larkin, Dublin Laborite, spoiled a unanimous vote. "The payment of $50,000,000 to Britain is a compromise," groused Laborite Larkin. In London, Prime Minister Chamberlain, busy last week with another neighbor, France (see p. 15), is expected this week...
...Valera used his parliament at Dublin last week to rub in his paper victory in a manner as annoying as possible to the English. To launch his Free State on a new foreign policy sharply different from that pursued by British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden, he asked the Dail to vote de facto recognition by the Irish Free State of Italy's conquest of Ethiopia...
Laborite members of the Dail spoke feelingly last week against Mr. de Valera. Labor Party Leader William Norton declared flatly that the Emperor "has no more claim to that title than His Britannic Majesty has to authority over Ireland, which was not given to him by the Irish people...