Word: dev
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Presumably, peppery U.S. Minister David Gray (uncle, by marriage, to Eleanor Roosevelt Roosevelt) stepped down a corridor in Dublin's Leinster House, entered Prime Minister Eamon de Valera's office. Presumably, gaunt, U.S.-born "Dev" scanned the note handed him, hopped good & mad from his chair, sputtering more sparks than the fire on his hearth...
...officialdom would disclose only the staid, though strong, language of the U.S. note and Dev's counternote...
...Dev: No-Eire's neutrality is of "uniform friendly character" toward the United Nations...
...Issue Decided. Confronted with this issue, isolationist Dev left off reading speeches written ten years ago. He rejected the idea of a coalition' cabinet as a "mixum-gatherum affair." The thought of "bargaining" with Britain, the obstacle to the union of northern and southern Ireland, made him "sick...
...voters' verdict showed that Eire still did not consider World War II or its aftermath her concern. Some observers wondered whether it was not the potato shortage, more than any other factor, that had cost Dev his majority...