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Angry Irish voices filled the lecture theater of Dublin's handsome, wide-flung Leinster House. Honorable red-faced members of the Dail Eireann threw "reckless," "irresponsible," "pique and petulance" at the bowed head of astute, unbowed Prime Minister Eamon de Valera, crouched on his shiny, mahogany front-row seat. De Valera had just tripped an unwary Dail into an unwanted general election, the second within a year...
Everybody in Eire was sure that nobody in Eire wanted last week's general election. But the constitution grants the Dail five years of life, a tenure now up. So the electors, from Donegal to Dublin, walked or jaunted to the polls in every schoolhouse, where those officials known as personation agents checked to see that the living did not vote twice or more, or the dead even once...
...Prime Minister Eamon de Valera's Fianna Fail (League of Destiny) Party won 67 seats, a loss of ten. "Dev's" republicans were still the largest group in the Dail, but it had lost a majority (71). The prospect was that Dev would cooperate with a lesser party to get a working administration...
...since the day of Munich had the British press given such play to any single story. War news was all but pushed from the pages of London's war-curtailed dail ies. Many of them devoted half their space to news of the document which, in the midst of war, looked forward to a better post-war world. The Beveridge Report, published last week, was the biggest domestic event for Britons in many years...
What happened to McGuinness was a subject better left undiscussed. A censor slashed his name from a Dail report. No more than a hundred men in Ireland knew last week that Captain Charles McGuinness of the Marine Corps was in quod...