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While the provisional government of Ireland is struggling to set up the administrative organization of the new Free State, Eamonn De Valera for so long styled its "President" is sulking in Paris. While the majority of Irishmen are uniting in an effort to put the infant republic on its feet, their erstwhile leader is busy organizing an International Irish League which is to start a new campaign to "obtain the absolute Independence of Ireland". He who was once the "white hope" of Irishmen--at home and abroad--has become the more spokesman of a few malcontents...
...patients; the teacher must know more than his subject, he must know the minds of his pupils, for a Ph.D., does not suffice to make a successful teacher; the engineer must know more than iron and steel and how to handle them, he must also know how to handle Irishmen and Italians and Hungarians...
...Sullivan took the long leading role, winning much applause as the hero and too little as an actor. He proved to be quite superior to the rest of the case, perhaps because of his opportunities. From apparent indications there are enough Irishmen in Boston, who are amused by anything pertaining to the Emarald Isles, to insure the Arlington Players a prosperous week with "Shaun Rhue...
...affirmative would solve the greatest of Irish difficulties, namely, the Ulster problem. With a central legislature in Dublin, and subordinate ones in the various provinces which would settle affairs pertinent to themselves, Ulster's problem would be solved. It is not a spirit of independence which animates Irishmen, but a spirit of hatred towards England...
...course I am expecting the objection that Franklin's activity in France and de Valera's in America are not similar, and that the sacrifices in bodies and blood by Irishmen before the altar of Liberty are not like the successful bloodshed of your human ancestors, the American Revolutionists. I admit the objection. Eamon de Valera is not Benjamin Franklin, and Sinn Feiners are not American Revolutionists. The implication is plain; it tends to explain the CRIMSON's attitude...