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...Dail Eireann, sixth in the six years that the Irish Free State has existed, met last week in a bitter session. President (Premier) William Thomas Cosgrave, sitting as an ordinary Deputy for Cork, was re-elected President of the Executive Council by a majority of six votes. The actual votes cast were 76 for and 70 against, Capt. William Archer Redmond abstaining and James Larkin, Dublin Communist, absent as an undischarged bankrupt...
...debate on the election was along party lines. Mr. Cosgrave was the only nominee. Eamon De Valera insisted upon speaking Gaelic, which only 10% of the Dail understands; but his henchman, Sean Thomas O'Kelley, indulged in some acrid diatribes at the expense of Mr. Cosgrave and his followers, whom he dubbed renegade Irishmen ruling Ireland in the interests of Britain...
...next day, by an identical vote, his Ministry was approved by the Dail. The only change was the appointment of Fitzgerald Kenny as Minister of Justice in succession to the slain Kevin Christopher O'Higgins (TIME, July 18, 1925). Ernest Blythe is Vice President in addition to being Minister of Finance, the former post also having been held by Mr. O'Higgins at the time of his death...
...elections at a time when the opposition parties are known to be financially embarrassed may well return Mr. Cosgrave and his party to the next Dail with a comfortable surplus of votes; for his narrow escape has alarmed the conservative business element and has shot Irish politics with a keenness it has lacked since the first Free State elections. At present everything points to a big victory for Mr. Cos- grave...
...Fianna Fail, which for years refused to enter the Dail unless the oath of allegiance to King George was removed, recently ended its resistance (TIME, Aug. 22), took the oath and its seats at the extreme left of the Dail opposition benches...