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Knowing this, Prime Minister Eamon de Valera of Eire was able to get tough with Britain last week over the project of conscripting Irishmen for the British Army in the six counties of Northern Ireland (TIME, May 8). He warned: "We claim the whole of Ireland as national territory, and conscription of Irish in that portion of the country [Northern Ireland] we will regard as an act of aggression...
Come what may, Prime Minister Eamon de Valera's Eire Government does not expect to muster Irish troops to help Britain in a war. Moreover, considering Northern Ireland a part of Eire, the de Valera Government does not want the six counties mixed up with a war. Last week the British Government announced the beginnings of conscription (see p. 20). Promptly Viscount Craigavon, Prime Minister of Northern Ireland, announced that Northern Ireland was a "most loyal part of the United Kingdom and would deeply resent any suggestion that she should not be included in the military training bill...
...have the right of it when you call our taoiseach [Eamon de Valera] "teacherish" [TIME, Oct. 31]. Tis a true word surely. But where are your wits at all that you have been looking at pictures of him these 20 years and more and never saw that "turkey-necked" would be a truer one? And without codding doesn't the face of him look like a turkey...
...recognize Rebel Spain as the only legal Spanish Government, which would mean withdrawing recognition simultaneously from Loyalist Spain. This would give Generalissimo Franco the legal international right of starving out the Loyalists even if he could not conquer them. Illegally he is already doing just that. Prime Minister Eamon de Valera's Eire Government jumped the gun by according immediate recognition to the Generalissimo...
...Prime Minister Eamon de Valera, once an I. R. A. leader himself, has kept discreetly quiet, content to disregard the bomb-planting of his old cronies so long as they did not plant any under him. Last week he received a letter threatening violence if he did not join up. The Prime Minister then instructed his Minister of Justice to rush through Eire's Parliament bills giving the Government power to arrest suspected extremists on suspicion, execute them after a summary trial before secret military tribunals...