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...head, took up his papers and went forth to present his credentials from President Roosevelt to George V. The two men never met. Governor General Buckley continued to read the papers while Minister McDowell rode behind a clattering cavalry escort to present himself to scrawny President Eamon de Valera of the Irish Free State...
...bigger sweepstakes was going on last week but Minister McDowell will never be able to show any interest in the fight between President Eamon de Valera and General Owen O'Duffy, head of the Opposition Fascist Blue Shirts. Last week President de Valera was trying to get the Senate to abolish the Blue Shirts and he still wanted to try General O'Duffy on charges of sedition and incitement to murder. When the conservatives of the Senate refused to pass a bill banning the uniform of the Blue Shirts, President de Valera angrily appealed to the Dail Eireann...
Grown overconfident after his defy to the British Government last month, Free State President Eamon de Valera lost a trick last week to his Fascist foe blue-shirted General Owen O'Duffy. Last fortnight de Valera men stopped the blue-shirted General on his way to address a County Mayo meeting of the blue-shirted party he had just renamed the "League of Youth" after the President banned it as the Young Ireland Association...
...tiraded through Dublin streets to College Green. There they poured kerosene on two Union Jacks, brandished the blazing banners until only charred staves remained. Leaders howled at the crowd, "Destroy every poppy in Dublin tomorrow and burn every Union Jack and every emblem of British imperialism." They excoriated President Eamon de Valera for not having made it a crime to fly the British flag in Dublin on Armistice...
...fierce-fighting men of County Kerry had a fine riot last week. Thousands of them, especially the frisky young ones, think there is no finer man in Ireland than Free State President Eamon de Valera of the long gozzle and wild hair. When they heard that his No. 1 foe. bullet-headed General Owen O'Duffy. founder of the United Ireland opposition party, was rallying his blue-shirted Irish Fascists to a meeting in the little Kerry town of Tralee by the sea, they got the feel of a shillalah in one hand, the heft of a handful...