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...ugly rioting near military barracks in five Irish Free State counties. . . . Next day Mary McSwiney, sister of the Lord Mayor of Cork who in 1920 committed suicide by hungerstriking, made known that these riots had been staged by her Sinn Fein associates as an awful warning to the Dail Eireann. The Dail convened last week with the Sinn Fein Deputies absenting themselves as usual...
...Valera's "policies" envisioned the entrance of the now abstaining Sinn Fein Deputies into the Dail Eireann (Irish Free State Lower House), "as soon as the Oath of Fealty to King George V [now required of all Irish M.P.'s] shall be abolished. . . . My purpose is that our Deputies shall then work from within toward the establishment of a Republic...
...with interest that Mr. de Valera was defeated while opposing the extreme die-hards of his party. He was advocating that "when the Oath of Fealty to the King [required of all Irish M. P.'s] shall be abolished, then Sinn Feiners should cease to abstain from the Dail [Parliament], enter it and work toward the establishment of a Republic...
...York Times: "What should be a strictly collegiate function has become a gigantic public spectacle, raising the young gentlemen engaged in it to the notoriety of gladiators and matadors. . . . The remedies proposed editorially by the Harvard and Yale dail'es strike at the root of the evil...
...simplest way would be a dual monarchy rather than have some one whom we don't know and who doesn't know anything about us and who would in reality be an expatriate." Then, said he of: Republicans. "Nearly half the elected membership of the Dail is Republican. Of about 100 members, perhaps 48 are Republican. But they will not take the oath, and so they do not sit. This is very unfortunate, for there is no opposition and (perhaps in Ireland, particularly) where there is no opposition there is no Government." Irish Women. "They all have...