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...Portugal had been overcome. All that remained was to get quietly on paper an invitation to Russia and a Russian acceptance in exact legal forms which would be mutually acceptable to both the Soviet Union and the majority of League states issuing the invitation. Erupted at this point President Eamon de Valera of the Irish Free State...
...typical Irish quarrel. Following the treaty setting up the Irish Free State, an agreement was made whereby owners of great Irish estates were to be reimbursed for their land by the British Government, which in turn was to receive annuities collected by the Irish Government. The Government of Eamon de Valera refused two-and-a-half years ago to send this money to Britain, but kept collecting half of it to pay government expenses. Free State farmers, however, far from grateful for having their payments halved, refused to see why they should pay even that half. Last week...
President Eamon de Valera deigned to pay his first visit to a cinema in Ireland for the film's premiere in Dublin.. Most of the Irish Free State Cabinet was also on hand. And smiling behind the fluttering ribbons of his glasses went William Butler Yeats. Man of Aran has not yet been released...
Died. William Wallace McDowell, 67, U. S. Minister to the Irish Free State, one-time Democratic State Chairman of Montana (TIME. April 9); of a heart attack while attending a dinner given in his honor by President Eamon de Valera; in Dublin...
Only in Ireland could there be a king's representative like Donal Buckley. An ardent Republican and oldtime Sinn Fciner, he was nominated for the governor generalship by his good friend Eamon de Valera in the sneaking hope that Britain would make an issue of the matter by objecting. Britain did not. Once the proprietor of a grocery store, bicycle shop and inn, Donal Buckley was interned in Britain during the War after fighting bravely in the defense of the Postoffice during Dublin's Easter rebellion in 1916. He speaks nothing but Gaelic whenever possible, refuses to live...