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...propose to give you a constitution of the type the Irish people themselves would choose if Great Britain were a million miles away." Last November fiery, wild-eyed, Manhattan-born Eamon de Valera, President of the Irish Free State, bit these words off as distracted Britain stood on the brink of the Edward-Simpson crisis...
With Britain excited and distracted last week by prodigious preparations for crowning King George VI (see p. 19), President de Valera put his cards on the table, published the text of his new constitution, which more than fulfills the November promise. The people of the Irish Free State will vote on the constitution in June. If approved by a majority, the charter will come into force six months later and the Irish Free State, created in 1922 by the Anglo-Irish Treaty, will be nothing but a page in history...
Name. Eire, the old Irish name for Ireland, will be adopted not only for the Irish Free State but for "the whole of Ireland and its islands and territorial seas." Since Northern Ireland is still part of the United Kingdom, those Irish who are loyal to King George considered this ultimatum highly presumptuous. For 14 years President de Valera has felt confident that partitioned Ireland will be reunited eventually and his constitution looks forward to that happy day. Until it dawns, "Eire" will be identified for legislative purposes with the present Irish Free State...
...Porto Alegre flashed a Presidential order relieving Governor Flores da Cunha of his responsibilities as executor of the "state of war" in Rio Grande do Sul, handing them over to General Emilio Lucio Esteves, the State's Federal military commandant. This order in effect gave General Esteves a free hand with 17,000 Federal troops against anything General Flores da Cunha might try with his 30,000 militiamen...
...when far-flung railroads and communications will break the political stranglehold of Sao Paulo, Minas Geraes and Rio Grande do Sul and make the United States of Brazil as hard to manage as the United States of America is still remote, leaving Brazil's politicos free to wrestle with more immediate problems. Most immediate problem, whether General Flores da Cunha really could start a revolution, Getulio Vargas seemed to have for the moment well in hand. The next, whether he should succeed himself or put in a proxy president to warm his chair for him next year, Brazil...