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Last week the Dáil Eireann was electrified by these rip-roaring pro-Ally words from James Mathew Dillon, deputy leader of the minority Fine Gael party and son of the late, great Nationalist leader, John Dillon...
Trumpeting "we must all be brothers in one holy cause," gaunt Taoiseach (Leader) de Valera last week formed an all-party National Defense Council of three Cabinet Ministers, three Fine Gael representatives, and two Labor Party men. Prime duty of this Council, whose existence would obviate the necessity for secret sessions of the cumbersome Dail, was to formulate policy on national security, advise the Government without taking executive action...
...Eire, but the diehard Irish Republican Army has refused all these years to surrender its arms, fights on with recklessly placed time bombs and other murderous weapons of savage conspirators. As soon as World War II broke, the I. R. A. again raised that most popular of all Gael slogans, "England's difficulty will be Ireland's opportunity," and the Irish war for a Republic was on again-with the usual solicitation of funds from wild Irish in the U. S. Things got really serious last month when 150 I. R. A. stalwarts stole 1,084,000 rounds...
...Eire in a general election for the Dail Eireann (lower house) last week returned lanky, professorial Prime Minister Eamon de Valera and his government to power for five more years. At last reports "Dev's" Fianna Fail party had captured 70 of the 138 seats, the Fine Gael party of his oldtime opponent, former President William T. Cosgrave, 40 seats, the Labor party six and the Independents seven. Under Eire's involved system of proportional representation, the final tabulation will be a matter of days but observers held that of the 15 unconfirmed seats, five would...
Most surprising upset of the election was the showing of Dublin's Lord Mayor, Alfred Byrne, Fine Gael Party member. For 20 years dapper, little "Alf" has ruled the Dublin roost. Last week, his total poll barely gave him the third seat under proportional representation in Dublin's Northeast district as "Dev's" Minister for Posts & Telegraphs, Oscar Traynor, took the first, a Cosgravite the second...