Word: kingdoms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...island became the Irish Free State, now Eire-was recently shocked: from London came reports that Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain had agreed to discuss with Prime Minister Eamon de Valera whether the people of Ulster should now decide by plebiscite whether to remain part of the United Kingdom or join Eire. Last week Ulster was flabbergasted when tall, teacher-ish Eamon de Valera suddenly announced at Dublin that his demands go much beyond a plebiscite...
...short, the United Kingdom, blackmailed from Dublin, "must" simply hand over Ulster to Eire, according to Eamon de Valera, who last week made not the slightest attempt to spare British feelings. The Prime Minister of Eire, however, did seek to soothe Ulstermen over the head of its Prime Minister, Lord Craigavon of Northern Ireland...
...Government will negotiate with Prime Minister Eamon de Valera, owing to Mr. de Valera's sudden demand -following the Munich dismemberment of Czechoslovakia-that a plebiscite be held to determine whether some of Ulster (the six counties of Northern Ireland which are part of the United Kingdom) shall be brought under the de Valera Government of Eire...
Secret documents are always published after a major war, years afterward as a general thing. But just before the peace of last week (see p. 75), His Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom made historic haste, disclosing in a White Paper ten documents of the Czechoslovak crisis, hitherto secret. Although these did not quite tell all, for verbal encounters had been of great importance, they provided future historians with prompt and vital data, provided glimpses behind the scenes of the recent crisis...
...House of Commons this week Neville Chamberlain dramatically announced that His Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom is opening a British credit of $50,000,000* for the Czechoslovak Government in response to an appeal from President Eduard Benes that Czechoslovakia receive an immediate international loan of $150,000,000 to rehabilitate homeless Czechs, rebuild lost industries and fortifications...