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Prime Minister Eamon de Valera's protest, fortnight ago, against an English court decision that Irishmen in Britain can be forced into the British Army, had no more effect than his protest against the presence of U.S. troops on Irish soil...
...around the Eire censors' rule against publication of news of Irishmen serving with the Allies, Dublin's Irish Times solemnly wrote of a former staff member who survived the sinking of the Prince of Wales: "Friends of John A. Robinson, who was involved in a recent boating accident, will be glad to learn that he is alive and well...
...German Military Attaché Franz von Papen was expelled from the U.S. for plotting an invasion of Canada, suborning disloyal Germans and Irishmen, blowing up ships, docks, munitions factories, and workingmen with an inept abandon that even a foreign government's official spy is not permitted to indulge. Ever since then, Americans have followed Papen's activities with a somewhat surreptitious personal interest-like that taken in a classmate who was expelled from school...
...Wolfeishly plain as weathered bone. Also included: a steely-clean character sketch of a rich old New Yorker waking up; an almost religious essay on loneliness; a hard spanking of a literary critic who might be William Lyon Phelps or Henry Seidel Canby; a Swiftian attack on Irishmen; a few poignant pages on Cousin Arnold in which is resurrected the snorting ghost of that great comic character Bascom Hawke...
...Eire's Dail Prime Minister de Valera this week scolded: "There could be no more grievous attack on any fundamental human right than the plan to force an individual to fight for a country to which he objected to belong." It is a strange war indeed in which Irishmen do not want to fight...