Word: ireland
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ireland's Leaders Sirs...
Noticeable to me, as it must have been to many other Americans of Irish birth or descent, was TIME'S (Sept.11 issue) omission of Ireland's leaders in the list of those of other European countries as of September, 1939 . . . In her position as a mother country and considering her present political status, Ireland (especially Eire) would seem to be inadequately represented by the named governors of the British Commonwealth of Nations. Nor can a citizen of Eire, as exemplified by Cinemactor Errol Flynn, be reasonably designated a Briton when Cinemactor Raymond Massey is designated a Canadian. . . . Seemingly...
...Eire's leaders are: President, Douglas Hyde; Premier, Eamon de Valera; Defense Minister, Frank Aiken. Northern Ireland's: Governor, The Duke of Abercorn; Premier, Viscount Craigavon of Stormont...
...steel sharks that sank 6,000 commercial ships in World War I were active again last week, concentrated between Ireland and Portugal, from the English Channel toward mid-Atlantic; although, Adolf Hitler had 72 submarines compared to 140 the Kaiser had when his war ended. British raiders were also in evidence, preying on German shipping. Total losses for the week: Germany, four ships, 14,764 tons; Allies, 16 ships, 89,841 tons. Mystery of the week: where was the Bremen, unreported twelve days after her dash out of New York Harbor...
...Northern Ireland was in, and only Eire, of the Empire's major members, was out. But Eire's neutrality was summed up by an official who released the crew of a British seaplane forced down in a remote harbor of Eire. Said he: "Sure, we're neutral, but who are we neutral against...