Word: ils
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...call your attention to a statement in your issue of Dec. 7 under POLITICAL NOTES-"Il Penseroso," where you say of Mr. Robert Todd Lincoln, "In 1889 President Harrison sent him to London as Am- bassador." If my recollection is correct the first Ambassador sent to a regular diplomatic post of the U. S. abroad was Thomas P. Bayard of my native state of Delaware who was sent to the Court of St. James's by President Cleveland after the latter became President for his second term in 1898. Mr. Bayard had as you know been Cleveland...
...Dublin, correspondents and cinema-cameramen roosted throughout the week near the Dáil Eireann, obstreperous lower House of the Irish Free State Parliament. The hours fled breathlessly because a certain bland clause in the Free State Constitution provides that every Irish M. P. must take an oath of allegiance to King George-which has caused Eamonn de Valera and 38 other elected Republican deputies to absent themselves from the Dáil in protest. Last week they were expected to appear at any moment. Rumor had it that they would force their way into the Dáil without...
...Britain shall relinquish all claims upon the Free State for payment of Ireland's part of the British War debt. The agreement had been ratified earlier in the week by the British House of Commons and the Ulster Chamber. It awaited only the ratification of the Dáil before becoming operative. Why then, so much clamor? Simply because the Irish Republicans have fought long and fiercely to bring back "the lost Catholic provinces of Ulster" into the Free State. Should the present boundary and territorial status quo be recognized as permanent by the Dáil, these aspirations...
Eventually the stomaching was accomplished. The De Valerists, threatened by President Cosgrave of the Irish Free State with the dissolution of the Dáil if they attempted strong-arm politics, continued to "abstain" and the measure eventually passed...
...length a timid Communist piped: "I think this measure would be justified only if Italy were at war." From the tribune Il Benito looked down, far down: "I consider the Italian nation in a permanent state of war! ... I consider the next five or ten years decisive for the future of our nation, because international competition is growing ever keener. . . . Even as controversies are not permitted at the front in wartime, so now we must realize the maximum national efficiency...