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...Dublin last week a mildly Fascist group of veterans of the Irish Free State army and the prede Valera Republican army was organized as "The Free State Army Comrades Association." President: Dr. Thomas O'Higgins, member of the Dail and good friend of former President William T. Cosgrave. Their first pronunciamento attacked Communism "or any disguised form of it introduced surreptitiously into the country." In addition the Comrades Association attacked long-necked President de Valera and his tariff war with Great Britain: "We regard as charged with extremely dangerous potentialities the new fashion of branding as traitors certain public...
...Dail the opposition under ex-President Cosgrave was vociferous. For the first time the Irish Laborites, nominal allies of the de Valera Republicans, grew restless...
...Free State is to cease remitting annuities to the British Government for estates of British and Irish landlords divided and sold on the installment plan to Irish tenants. The Senators might as well have saved their breath. President de Valera pushed a ?2,000,000 emergency appropriation through the Dail for the establishment of new industries and opening of new markets, then refused to say how the money was to be spent. It was charged and not denied that the fund was a War Chest for Republican propaganda and to further the economic war with Britain...
...good measure the Dail voted numerous extraordinary powers to the Government before finally adjourning. "I will guarantee that these powers will not be abused," promised Mr. De Valera. "We are not anxious to extend the area of friction and this friction was not caused...
...under the Young Plan. . . . The Irish people have always aspired to complete independence. . . . They accepted the Free State [equivalent to 'dominion status'] as an alternative to the renewal of war." In Dublin just as Finance Minister Sean Macentee was about to promulgate the tariffs authorized by the Dail last week "he collapsed in his home from strain and was ordered to bed for several days by his doctor" while his undersecretaries did the promulgating...