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Ebullient Dubliners said this makes their country a republic and it certainly kills "the person of the King" in the Free State, but that person has been a legal fiction. Teacherish President Eamon de Valera said dryly that his Free State has not withdrawn from the "British Commonwealth of Nations." The Dail vote he explained "leaves the King only a vague title in the international affairs of the Irish Free State. He has no longer any internal powers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IRISH FREE STATE: Both Are the King | 12/21/1936 | See Source »

...propose to give you a Constitution of the type the Irish people themselves would choose if Great Britain were a million miles away." As truculent, smoldering Eamon de Valera bit off these words before a packed assembly of his party, Fianna Fail, at the Mansion House. Dublin last week, millions of rebel Irish hearts all over the world were stirred...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IRISH FREE STATE: Come-Together Constitution | 11/16/1936 | See Source »

Pictures showing His Majesty beating an Orangeman's drum when Prince of Wales, were next burned at Belfast amid Irish jeers. Finally through Belfast streets rumbled a float on which an effigy of Irish Free State President Eamon de Valera dressed as a nurse attended a baby carriage in which sat an effigy of King Edward sucking a bottle of liquid labeled "DOPE...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: The Crown: Aug. 10, 1936 | 8/10/1936 | See Source »

...Steering Committee of the Assembly had been secretly considering British formulas to bar His Majesty from speaking before the League. It was now or never, and His Majesty might not even have been permitted to address the League Assembly last week had not impetuous Irish Free State President Eamon de Valera blazed: "I am unwilling that there should even be discussion of his undoubted right to speak...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Answering Ethiopia | 7/13/1936 | See Source »

...This week the Sanctions Committee set July 15 as the official Sanctions ending date. Not the End. As the delegates hastily left Geneva for their home capitals, most privately agreed that by far the best speech of the week had been made by the Irish Free State's Eamon de Valera and that these were his most trenchant words: "If the great powers of Europe would only meet now in that peace conference which will have to be held after Europe has once again been drenched in blood; if they would be prepared to make now, in advance, only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Answering Ethiopia | 7/13/1936 | See Source »

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