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There were some independents to swell the anti-De Valera ranks: irreverent, foxy Shopkeeper James Dillon, whose only program for years had been to heckle Dev from the floor of the Dail, and a certain bonesetter who asked re-election on the grounds that he mended all limbs gratis regardless of party affiliation. But the best the combined opposition could hope for seemed to be reducing Dev's majority to a mere plurality, and further confound an increasingly confused government. In that case Dev, who refused to consider joining a coalition, might resign, but the chances of forming...
Deputy Dr. Thomas F. O'Higgins, the doughty man, rose in the Dail Eireann last week to complain that Prime Minister Eamon de Valera had called the Opposition "cubs...
Gloomily the delegates trooped down the green and yellow carpet of Dublin's Leinster House and into the dimly lit Dail Chamber. "Like mourners," cracked a newsman, "heavy with the wake's hangover, for the funeral of Kathleen ni Houlihan." Throughout the war stubborn, belligerently neutral Eire had feasted while the rest of the world fought. But last week the feast was over and the grim specter of famine lowered over Eire. Newspaper headlines were black with pessimism, as Eire's editors recalled the great Famine of 1847, when a blight had turned Ireland's young...
...Government had no answer and few plans. "We're not responsible for sun-spots," snapped mystic mathematician Premier Eamon de Valera at his critics. And while Dev doodled oversize hieroglyphics, at his side nervous, lanky Agriculture Minister Patrick Smith could only assure the Dail that "with the help of God" the weather would mend. "I have faith in the mercy of God," piously echoed an Opposition frontbencher. Like the Government, the Opposition had no further ideas...
...England is concerned," declared Prime Minister Eamon de Valera last week before the whole Dail assembled, "it is a matter that everybody must regard as wonderful the way in which the British are denying themselves to see that more supplies will be available in Europe...