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Prime Minister Eamon de Valera's protest, fortnight ago, against an English court decision that Irishmen in Britain can be forced into the British Army, had no more effect than his protest against the presence of U.S. troops on Irish soil...
Died. Mary MacSwiney, Irish Sinn Feinnef, sister of Terence MacSwiney, onetime mayor of Cork; after long illness; in Cork. A would-be Irish Joan of Arc, she lived through many a hunger strike, unlike her brother, who died of his in 1920. To the bitter end she spurned Eamon de Valera and his compromise Free State...
Prime Minister Eamon de Valera of neutral, nervous Eire last week paid tribute to the manners of his great warring neighbor. Said...
...Lisbon to London. There he talked with Winston Churchill, Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden, U.S. Ambassador John G. Winant, U.S. Minister to the Allies Anthony Drexel Biddle Jr., U.S. Minister to Eire David Gray. He let it be known that he might also go to Eire to confer with President Eamon de Valera...
Shocked by such pro-British utterances was Deputy Dillon's Party leader, onetime President William Thomas Cosgrave, who repudiated the speech. Even more shocked was Prime Minister Eamon de Valera. He tried to have the speech censored-to no avail. Eire's censor takes orders from nobody, sometimes censors even Taoiseach de Valera...