Word: lemass
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Jovanka took in Washington's sights, but the route of their ten-limousine motorcade was kept so secret-to avoid demonstrations-that puzzled pedestrians along the way asked, "Who is it?" No Yugoslav flags decorated the thoroughfares-only some Irish banners left over from Prime Minister Sean Lemass' visit earlier in the week...
Portrait (CBS, 10:30-11 p.m.). Sean Lemass, Prime Minister of Ireland, interviewed in his Dublin office...
...affinity with Ireland is based on -perhaps it is the fact that though our language is English, we are not. At any rate, TIME'S Atlantic Edition has more readers in Ireland per capita than anywhere else in Europe. Last week's cover story on Prime Minister Lemass quickly replaced Kennedy's visit as a subject of Irish conversation. News dealers in Dublin and Cork had to put copies under the counter for their regulars, though thousands of extra copies were rushed over from London. It was a great day for the Irish-so much so that...
Total Effort. Lemass' most bruising disappointment in office was Charles de Gaulle's rejection of British membership in the Common Market last year. Determined to take Ireland into Europe alongside Britain, Lemass had already started whittling tariff barriers to give Ireland's older and most cosseted industries a whiff of the cold competitive wind outside. To clear the way for Ireland's entry, which he now believes cannot come before 1970, Lemass has unequivocally committed his nation, which has 9,000 men under arms, to support of NATO policies. In 1949, at NATO's founding...
...Lemass, by contrast, one of the most compelling motives for seeing Britain and Ireland inside the European Community is the very prospect that Ireland would thereby take a step closer to reunification. Automatic dismantling of their mutual tariff barriers under Common Market rules, says Lemass, would finally necessitate a degree of cooperation between Protestant and Catholic Ireland. Instead of the present prolonged farce of nonrecognition-neither country will even permit extradition of criminals by the other-and continued stagnation of Ulster's economy, Lemass foresees "a total national effort in which old differences and animosities can be forgotten...