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Ireland never heard of this traffic with Beelzebub until 28 years had passed. Then, in the heat of an election, someone challenged Eamon De Valera: "Where are the Russian jewels?" Dev told how his old crony Harry Boland had hidden them at his home in Dublin. In 1922, as he lay dying from Free State bullets, anti-Free State Irish Republican Extremist Boland pledged his sister and mother never to give up the jewels until Ireland was free. Not until Britain left the Irish ports in 1938 did the Boland women turn over the treasure to Dev's government...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IRELAND: The Loan to Moscow | 4/10/1950 | See Source »

...more was said until last week. Then, Dev's Irish Press broke the news that the Russians had at long last repaid the loan and retrieved their jewels. Prime Minister John A. Costello explained that the Russian jewels had never been worth more than $5,600, but his government had collected the full $20,000. Thus closed the first, and probably the last, Soviet-Irish loan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IRELAND: The Loan to Moscow | 4/10/1950 | See Source »

...Little Corporal. This week the Christian Socialists stepped back for a Liberal try at the royal question. Leopold's younger brother, the Regent Prince Charles, asked the Liberals' Albert Devèze to form a government. Short, sprightly, a politician to the tips of his grey mustache, Devèze has been a Deputy Premier and Defense Minister since August 1949. Dubbed "le petit caporal" because he likes to prance on horseback in uniform, the new Premier-designate was said to be hopeful of a three-party agreement to recall Leopold on condition that the King abdicate immediately...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BELGIUM: From Palace to Tram Top | 4/3/1950 | See Source »

Crown Prince Baudouin. What made Devèze believe the stubborn factions were ready for harmony? "That's my secret," chirped the little corporal, then added brightly: "Have pity on the pianist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BELGIUM: From Palace to Tram Top | 4/3/1950 | See Source »

...facto government, set up an orphanage and a hospital for the poor, brought in food and medicines, cleaned up the filthy streets and buried the dead* -more than 5,000 of the 30,000 or so Philadelphians who had remained. Such men as Merchant Stephen Girard, French Refugee Dr. Devèze and former Negro Slaves Absalom Jones and Richard Allen worked with extraordinary heroism and leadership. As Author Powell discloses their steady gallantry, they take on the stature of American heroes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Terror in the Streets | 1/23/1950 | See Source »

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