Word: dev
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...nearly blind though still physically active "Dev," the last surviving commandant of the outlawed Irish Republican Army, is an advocate of peaceful negotiation as the best means of uniting the country...
...Valera's Fianna Fail (Men of Destiny) Party had lost eight seats in the Parliament, the Independents who often supported them had lost one. Altogether the opposition parties, led by John Costello's Fine Gael (United Ireland), had gained enough votes to give the anti-Dev coalition a shaky majority...
...bleeding her white of young blood at the rate of 20,000 a year, an agricultural economy that has still only one market (the U.K.), a soaring unemployment that reached 80,000 this year. Yet none of these facts seemed to be at issue in the general election that Dev himself had called to test his puny two-vote majority in the Parliament. Even the ancient cause celebre, partition, seemed temporarily forgotten...
...Stern Duty. The points at issue, if any, between John Costello's Fine Gael and Dev's own party were largely sentimental ones dating back to the days of the Civil War, when Dev and the Men of Destiny held out for total independence while Fine Gael was willing to settle for mere home rule under Britain. In order to govern at all, Lawyer Costello (accent on the first syllable) will have to join a coalition with the Labor Party, which favors even more government spending than Dev...
...Irishmen believed that such a shaky coalition could long endure, yet Dev's stern refusal to ease their lot by deficit spending or careless borrowing made them blind to any other risk. "We knew we would be unpopular for increasing taxation and removing [food] subsidies," said Dev, "but we either had to do our duty or not, and we did our duty...