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...days later Dublin's "Messiah of Freedom," kept his election pledge to introduce a bill abolishing the oath of fealty to King George sworn by Free State Deputies and Senators (TIME, Feb. 29, et seq.). Before packed galleries Mr. de Valera presented to the Dail what will be known merely as The Constitution Bill, 1932. Since this was only its first reading (three being required), the President wasted no strength in championing his bill and his potent foe, ex-President William Thomas Cosgrave, was not even present, had gone to a funeral. Oratorical honors were therefore taken by Independent...
Long, lean Eamon de Valera caught only snatches of troubled sleep last week. Although his home, ''Springville," is but ten motor minutes from Government House in Dublin, President de Valera had a bed lugged into his office. Toiling and arguing with his Cabinet Ministers, Ireland's "Messiah of Freedom'' faced with haggard mien an invisible and potent foe: the collective opposition of very polite British statesmen throughout the Empire. London hurled at Dublin last week a terrifying silence, a lack of further protest against the two major platform promises on which President de Valera was elected: abolition of the Free...
Work done last week by President Eamon de Valera. called by his enemies a windbag, by his friends a Messiah of Freedom...
...went home the Deputies were told by Minister of Finance John McEntee that the Free State will retain the ?3,000,000 ($10,860,000) which it is scheduled to pay this year to former British "absentee landlords" who sold out their Irish holdings and are owed this money. Messiah de Valera spoke of lowering taxation by this means...
...violence of this criticism is a natural reaction from the attitude which looked to him as the Messiah of the new Capitalism. In the last decade he was the prime example of the benevolent despot of big business, the man who led labor along the path of mild Socialism to the ultimate felicity of two cars in every garage. When the mirage faded, the tendency of the victimized rank and file naturally was to turn to the false leaders, among whom Ford was the foremost. But in reality he was much a victim...