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...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...
...Army sergeants, one a thin Dev onshire boy named William Brown and one a slight young man named Joseph Randall of State Center, Iowa, stopped on the Gafsa-Gabes highway at midafternoon to day, shook hands and slapped each other on the back. ... By the time the red sun sank splendidly behind western ranges British liaison officers were gradually filtering into Gafsa demanding: 'Have you Yanks got any beer?'"-from New York Times Correspondent C. L. Sulzberger's account of the first meeting of U.S. and British Eighth Army patrols, which took place between Gafsa and Gabes...
...only part of the British Commonwealth of Nations not at war with Germany, Eamon de Valera's Republic of Eire has steered placidly and prosperously outside the blockade of all belligerents. His neutrality policy worked so well over the war's first nine months that Prime Minister "Dev" had lately been thinking of holding a general election to cash in on its success. Last month's rape of three little neutrals not so far away upset all that. Appalled Irishmen promptly forgot political enmities energetically cultivated since the civil war. Even William Cosgrave, who rose from saloonkeeper...
Against these fifth columnists, Prime Minister Dev fulminated last week. Defending arrests and intensive police searches for cached I. R. A. arms, he proclaimed: "The liberties for which we are all trustees have been dearly bought. In this land there must not be found one treacherous hand to give them away." From the Most Rev. Michael Browne, Bishop of Galway, came the enormous support of the Catholic Church. "Any Irishman," the Bishop told assembled Connaughtmen, "who assists any foreign power to attack the legitimate authority of his own land is guilty of the most terrible crime against...
About all worried "Dev" could do was call the Dail (Chamber of Deputies) to meet this week and give the police wider powers to arrest and detain suspects. The latest outburst of I. R. A. terror ism dates from Dec. 14, when two young Irishmen were sentenced to death in England at the Birmingham Assizes, for planting bombs at Coventry...