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...Douglas Hyde by name, received from Civil Servant Wilfrid Brown formal notification in Gaelic that he had been elected first President of Eire. No vote-counting was necessary for Civil Servant Brown to reach this conclusion, for Dr. Hyde had been chosen by both Eamon de Valera's Fianna Fail Party and William T. Cosgrave's Opposition Party. He had been unopposed for the Presidential nomination...
...Valera lost no time in putting his achievements before the Dail Eireann (lower house). Four days after the pact was signed, the Opposition Fine Gael of William Cosgrave, who has now lost his chief difference with de Valera's party, joined with the Prime Minister's Fianna Fail supporters to vote approval. One diehard, James Larkin, Dublin Laborite, spoiled a unanimous vote. "The payment of $50,000,000 to Britain is a compromise," groused Laborite Larkin. In London, Prime Minister Chamberlain, busy last week with another neighbor, France (see p. 15), is expected this week...
President Eamon de Valera ran last week for a third term. Election of an Irish Free State President is by the Dail, itself just newly elected in a poll which failed to give de Valera's Fianna Fail Party the absolute majority for which the President had hoped (TIME, July 12). Fianna Fail won 69 seats, exactly the same number as the total held by all other parties combined. Free State Laborites continued last week to vote in loose coalition with Fianna Fail, and Eamon de Valera was elected President for the third time by a smashing Dail vote...
Legislature. Eire will once more have a bicameral government, the Bail (lower house), the Senate (upper house). Year ago the Senate was abolished because it was a nuisance politically to de Valera's party, Fianna Fail. More than two-thirds of the 60 new Senators will be elected as representatives of the arts, agriculture, commerce, industry...
...propose to give you a Constitution of the type the Irish people themselves would choose if Great Britain were a million miles away." As truculent, smoldering Eamon de Valera bit off these words before a packed assembly of his party, Fianna Fail, at the Mansion House. Dublin last week, millions of rebel Irish hearts all over the world were stirred...