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...British general election, polled 150,000 votes out of 650,000 cast. Two of its candidates, both prisoners of the Omagh raid and now in British jails, were elected, and the House of Commons (which does not admit felons) was later forced to unseat them. The jailed Sinn Feiner, who recontested his seat, was returned with a tripled majority. Irish societies everywhere are once again raising funds for the I.R.A., e.g., the United Irish Counties Association in New York last week unanimously voted $25,000 for the defense of the three men arrested in the Aborfield raid...
...Paris, finally, she met the man she wanted to marry: John MacBride, "a wiry, soldierly looking man, with red hair and skin burned brick red by the South African sun" (where he had been commander of a volunteer brigade fighting for the Boers against the British). Wrote Sinn Feiner Arthur Griffith to them: "For your own sakes and for the sake of Ireland to whom you both belong, don't get married." But they did, with joy plotting together enough potential terrorism to sink the British Empire. But temperament drove them apart, and two years later they separated...
...preaching without a permit, and fined him $10. Ruled the Supreme Court (8 to 1): conviction reversed; such ordinances as New York City's are invalid because they give the police commissioner power to control "the right of citizens to speak on religious matters." ¶In 1949, Irving Feiner mounted a soapbox in Syracuse to drum up a crowd for a Young Progressive club meeting, began shrilling such comments as "President Truman is a bum," exhorted Negroes in a crowd of 70 to 80 people to fight for their rights. When a bystander said...
...Y.P.A. organized a rally, attended by 1,000 students, to protest the university's decision. Feiner himself addressed the crowd, and remarked, "I'll be around Syracuse for a long, long time." But Syracuse's Chancellor, William P. Tolley, stated, "The university will not modify its decision...
...Daily Orange commented: "Irving Feiner, a single individual, has done immeasurable harm to a university of 15,000 persons. His presence here is not worth the damage he has done...