Word: irelands
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...since more than a year ago when crowds of milling Englishmen chanted "We want King Edward!" had stodgy Downing Street seen such a demonstration. Thousands of London's Irishmen and Irishwomen packed the pavement before the black door of No. 10. The rousing strains of southern Ireland's republican anthem, A Soldier's Song, swelled from the lusty throats. Staid civil servants in black jackets and striped trousers poked their heads out Whitehall's windows. Suddenly the singing ceased. "Up Dev!'' roared the crowds. "A republic-no less!" A tall, gaunt, smiling man appeared...
...Full text of the articles of the Constitution concerned: Article Two: "The national territory consists of the whole of Ireland, its islands and the territorial seas." Article Three: "Pending the re-integration of the national territory, and without prejudice to the right of the Parliament and Government established by this Constitution to exercise jurisdiction over the whole of that territory, the laws enacted by that Parliament shall have the like area and extent of application as the laws of the Free State and the like extraterritorial effect." Article Four: "The name of the State is Eire...
...Free State into Eire (TIME, July 12 et ante). The new Constitution is so drawn that the "territory" of Mr. de Valera's nation "consists" of the whole island, and yet its "jurisdiction" today is only over what was formerly the Free State and not over Northern Ireland (see map).* Not only does Eire have to be mapped as two areas at once, but the whole conception is of a Catholic Irish nature, recalling that the new Constitution opens with the words: "In the Name of the Most Holy Trinity, from Whom is all authority...
...Protestants of Northern Ireland, this authority seems not only insufficient but provocative. They were boiling mad last week, and Viscount Craigavon, their Premier, was playing host in Belfast to new United Kingdom's Secretary of State for War Leslie Hore-Belisha. If there should be fighting as a result of the new Constitution, Secretary Hore-Belisha will have well surveyed the Irish ground...
...this week with Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain and Mr. MacDonald is of course to attempt conciliation. Success will be hard to achieve, but optimists recalled that away back in 1921 the British Government, then headed by Prime Minister David Lloyd George, declared that "any effort to induce Ulster [Northern Ireland] to unite with the rest of Ireland will have our benevolent neutrality." After Mr. Lloyd George had had a little more contact with Mr. de Valera, the Welshman observed: "Negotiating with that Irishman is like trying to scoop up mercury with a fork...