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...Commons last week, Malcolm MacDonald, Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs, gravely announced that in State papers His Majesty's Government would henceforth refer to the ex-Irish Free State as "Airy." One or two parliamentary eyebrows rose but no M. P. questioned his statement. In Dublin, however, Eamon de Valera looked down his long nose with annoyance. The correct pronunciation of Eire, he firmly announced...
...Once Eamon de Valera openly raised in London the issue of whether Northern Ireland should be merged with his Eire (TIME, Jan. 31), it was obvious that Prime Minister Viscount Craigavon of Northern Ireland could win an election on that issue without half trying. He promptly called an election, campaigned with the slogan "Don't Be Eirated!" and won last week, increasing his Parliamentary following to 80%. Viscount Craigavon has already been Prime Minister for 17 consecutive years, is now safely in for five more...
...windows. Suddenly the singing ceased. "Up Dev!'' roared the crowds. "A republic-no less!" A tall, gaunt, smiling man appeared for a moment on the doorstep. Then a surge of enthusiastic Irishmen swept away a line of police and pranced beside the car of departing Eamon de Yalera, Prime Minister of the new state of Eire (TIME, Jan. 24. et ante), who had just concluded a three-day peace parley with Britain...
...Recently Eamon de Valera secured the adoption of a new Constitution which has changed the Free State into Eire (TIME, July 12 et ante). The new Constitution is so drawn that the "territory" of Mr. de Valera's nation "consists" of the whole island, and yet its "jurisdiction" today is only over what was formerly the Free State and not over Northern Ireland (see map).* Not only does Eire have to be mapped as two areas at once, but the whole conception is of a Catholic Irish nature, recalling that the new Constitution opens with the words...
...whole point of Eamon de Valera's scheduled talks in London this week with Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain and Mr. MacDonald is of course to attempt conciliation. Success will be hard to achieve, but optimists recalled that away back in 1921 the British Government, then headed by Prime Minister David Lloyd George, declared that "any effort to induce Ulster [Northern Ireland] to unite with the rest of Ireland will have our benevolent neutrality." After Mr. Lloyd George had had a little more contact with Mr. de Valera, the Welshman observed: "Negotiating with that Irishman is like trying to scoop...