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...Cosgrave's purpose was to force the split factions of famed Eamonn de Valera and Miss Mary MacSwiney to join forces and enter the Dail. This they have refused to do, alleging their unwillingness to take the oath of fealty to George V, required of every deputy before he can legally take his seat. At present Mr. De Valera stands at the head of 44 Fianna Fail or "Republican" deputies; and Miss MacSwiney is one of six deputies comprising the much blighted and withered Sinn Fein party to which De Valera formerly belonged. Thus, these 50 deputies if they...
...Responsibility for carrying on the Government falls upon the majority in the Dail. It is not my duty nor within my power to provide them with a means of escape from that responsibility...
...last week one Deputy, Dan Breen, a Sinn Feiner, took his courage in both hands and took his seat in the Dail. He was not mobbed, but famed Eamon de Valera, onetime self-styled "President of the Irish Republic," said sorrowfully: "We deeply regret Breen's action...
President (Premier) William T. Cosgrave declared before the Dail: "We have to deal with an organized conspiracy to subvert the Government, but the force behind the raids and the genius directing them will not be able to make a sustained attack on liberty, order and peace in the Irish Free State." He then introduced the Public Safety Bill, supplementing the Treason Act and conferring emergency powers upon the Government. By employing all the persuasion at his command he was able to get the bill through the Dail last week...
...flaying vociferously His Brittanic Majesty's Governor General of the Irish Free State, Timothy Michael Healy, jovial Anglo-Irish barrister, author of that illuminating volume Why Ireland is not Free. Indiscreet, the Governor General is reported to have recently declared: "The longer the Sinn Feiners boycott the Dail the better pleased I shall...