Word: feins
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When Eamonn (Edward) De Valera, Hispano-Gaelic* hothead, resigned from the presidency of Sinn Fein* (TIME, March 22), the world learned with surprise that there are hotter heads than his in the party, that they had voted down "his policies...
...Valera's "policies" envisioned the entrance of the now abstaining Sinn Fein Deputies into the Dail Eireann (Irish Free State Lower House), "as soon as the Oath of Fealty to King George V [now required of all Irish M.P.'s] shall be abolished. . . . My purpose is that our Deputies shall then work from within toward the establishment of a Republic...
...Sinn Fein ultra-die-hards such a program is too milky-mild. They hold that "the Irish Free State is not Irish, is not free, and is not a state."? They are still out for cracked crowns and shillalahing upon the green. They will have none of "working from within...
...What Irishman, uncoupled from the Sinn Fein, has founded a new political party...
...Translate Sinn Fein into English...