Word: eamon
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...Bombed and the Unbombed. Elsewhere the comment varied too. In much-bombed Malta, under chalked up exhortations to "Bomb Rome," joyful Maltese scrawled: "Thanks." In bomb-ridden Chungking the Catholic Social Welfare exhorted Italians to "wake up and live." In unbombed Dublin Eamon de Valera's Irish Press thought the bombs would "sadden many." London's official attitude was: "regretful, yes; apologetic, no." Unofficial London: "It's about time." Madrid and Lisbon were noncommittal, Rio de Janeiro generally approved; Buenos Aires frowned...
...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...
...brand patterned after the old Boer republics'. His spokesmen claim that a victorious Hitler would entrust South Africa's government to the Herenigde, as the largest opposition party, but that if the United Nations win the war, Dr. Malan will fight for a republic as did Eamon de Valera in Ireland...
...General Dwight Eisenhower, Commander of the A.E.F., and Brigadier General Ira Eaker, head of the U.S. bomber command, who this week personally led a force of Flying Fortresses in a raid on occupied France (see p. 26). Then he went to Ireland, conferred for an hour with Prime Minister Eamon de Valera...
Died. The Rev. Michael ("The Big Fellow") O'Flanagan, 65, towering one-time leader of the Sinn Feiners; in Dublin. A teacher, historian, lecturer, he was acting Sinn Fein leader during Eamon de Valera's imprisonment in "The Trouble" of 1916-21. Diehard Anglophobe and fiery money-raiser in the U.S., O'Flanagan attacked the Irish bishops for allegedly using their offices to thwart full freedom, was thrice suspended from the priesthood...