Word: feins
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Chairman of the Third Internationale). He said that a Russian memorandum to a London financial group demanded a loan of ?20,000,000 to ?30, 000,000 as a condition of the return of confiscated property in Russia. Lord Curzon, onetime Foreign Secretary, charged the Soviets with backing Sinn Fein in Ireland, training Indian extremists in Moscow for the special purpose of breaking up the British Raj in India, establishing agencies in South Africa to break up the Union, conducting propaganda and intrigue against Great Britain in Persia...
...Ennis, County Clare, Eamon de Valera made a promised appearance at a Sinn Fein election meeting. Sinn Feiners with republican flags in crêpe greeted him vociferously. Shortly after his arrival in the town Mr. de Valera started his speech. He had hardly uttered half a dozen sentences when an armored car, accompanied by Free State troops, proceeded to clear the crowd. Shots were fired over the heads of the assembly, who dispersed in panic. De Valera is reported to have dropped at the first shot, although a statement issued by the Free State Government said that only " blank " ammunition...
...extent of de Valera's guilt in events since the Free State was set up (Jan., 1922). Chief among the accusations : he refused to abide by results of a general election; suggested proclaiming the Dail Eireann an illegal assembly; stated that members of the Government were rebels against Sinn Fein; was concerned in the assassination of Deputy Sean Hales and in the attempted assassination of Deputy Speaker O'Maelle; was responsible for military action undertaken by Sinn Fein; also responsible for wholesale destruction, execution, burning of children of Deputy McGarry, kidnappings...
...luncheon today at 12.45 o'clock Mrs. Hannah Sheehy Skeffington, an elected member of the Sinn Fein executive committee, will address the Liberal Club on "Ireland...
...Hannah Sheehy Skeffington, an elected member of the Sein Fein executive committee, will speak on "Ireland" at luncheon tomorrow. Mrs. Skeffington is one of the five women members of the Dublin City Council, and a Justice in the Republican Court...