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...Catherine T. Johnson of the Cambridge International House will speak at 6:45 p. m. tonight to Barnard Hall residents interested in local hospitality projects for foreign students. Her talk keynotes Na's current drive for student hostesses at the International House...
Last month the Melanesians were crying "Sing-out-Sorri" for the needy children of the whole world. "Palanti piki-nini," wrote a reporter in the Rabaul (New Britain) News, were in trouble, sick, starving, and "nogat moo, papa na mama" "Yumi ologeta," he wrote, "i halivim" (You me altogether we help 'em). In the U.S. some 25 private charities had half-heartedly joined with the U.N. to make the same sing-out in the United Nations Appeal for Children, but their unwieldy, badly organized campaign was a dud. Instead of a hoped-for $60 million it had turned...
...humor in De Valera either." James Dillon might make up for that. Dillon, who used to say that Dev's agricultural policy was "no eggs, no poultry, no bacon, and damned little of anything else," became Costello's Minister for Agriculture. Arch-Nationalist Sean MacBride, whose Clann na Poblachta joined the coalition, became Minister for External Affairs...
...Better a Dev You Know. . ." In a sense, you might say, it was a private fight between young (43), clever, soft-spoken Sean MacBride, whose Clann na Poblachta (Republican Party) had successfully challenged the government in last fall's by-elections (TIME, Dec. 1), and old Dev himself. Young Sean, whose early life had been spent in the outlawed Irish Republican Army and whose father had been executed by the British, disavowed any trace of anti-Britishism, but he was vaguely against Dev's policy of keeping Eire in the British pound sterling zone...
...Clann na Poblachta (Republican Party), founded only a year ago, had dared to challenge Dev's Fianna Fail. In Dublin, Waterford and Tipperary Counties, Clann candidates cut heavily into the Fianna's 1944 majorities. "The political tide, if it has not yet turned," said the Irish Times, "most assuredly is turning...