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...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...
Trim Sails. In 1957, after their children had grown up, Sean and Kathleen Lemass moved from their big old house in Dublin to an unpretentious seven-room bungalow in a pleasant suburb south of the capital, where the Prime Minister is picked up by a government car at 9:45 a.m. each day. He seldom returns until after dinner. Some years ago, Lemass cut down on golf and cards-to the relief of old poker cronies who usually wound up losers when Lemass played-to devote more time to the job. Sturdy (5 ft. 10 in.) and carefully groomed...
Some politicians criticize Lemass for being too much of a pragmatist. "He's a bit of a fly-boy," said Labor Party Leader James Larkin. "He trims his sails to different winds." The greatest challenge that Lemass has to face as a politician is to revitalize drab, unimaginative Fianna Fail, many of whose front-bench heroes of destiny have been around since Dev first came to office. Seven of the 13 members of the Lemass Cabinet are 60 or under, which is a relatively green age in Irish politics but hardly green enough...
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...