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President Eamon de Valera ran last week for a third term. Election of an Irish Free State President is by the Dail, itself just newly elected in a poll which failed to give de Valera's Fianna Fail Party the absolute majority for which the President had hoped (TIME, July 12). Fianna Fail won 69 seats, exactly the same number as the total held by all other parties combined. Free State Laborites continued last week to vote in loose coalition with Fianna Fail, and Eamon de Valera was elected President for the third time by a smashing Dail vote...
...teacherish President Eamon de Valera had hoped and expected, but at latest reports ratification of the new Constitution seemed certain by 560,000 votes to 436,000. The de Valera party made a weaker showing, with virtually complete returns early this week promising its opponents roughly half of the Dail's 138 seats...
...last week "the person of the King in the Irish Free State" (as in any other Dominion) was the Governor General appointed by the King. Irishmen thought the British crisis (see p. 14) an opportunity too good to lose. In Dublin the Dail by a vote of 81-to-5 frostily "approved" the fact that there is a new King, said nothing about "allegiance" and passed an amendment 79-to-55 that the office of Governor General of the Irish Free State is abolished...
...said this makes their country a republic and it certainly kills "the person of the King" in the Free State, but that person has been a legal fiction. Teacherish President Eamon de Valera said dryly that his Free State has not withdrawn from the "British Commonwealth of Nations." The Dail vote he explained "leaves the King only a vague title in the international affairs of the Irish Free State. He has no longer any internal powers...
...hastily drawn bill was afterward said by Dublin lawyers to have two interesting though unintended features: 1) if the Dail is ever dissolved there appears to be no legal provision for it ever to meet again; and 2) both Edward VIII and George VI are today King, according to this bill. By another technicality Edward VIII in the Union of South Africa will be King until its Parliament meets next Jan. 8 to confirm His Majesty's abdication in that Dominion...