Word: northern
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Chief remaining grudge between Eire and Great Britain are the six predominantly Protestant counties of Northern Ireland which are still separated from Eire and which, at least superficially, are loyally British. The Northern Ireland problem might well have simmered along for many a peaceful year, but the war scare threatens to bring the question to a head...
Come what may, Prime Minister Eamon de Valera's Eire Government does not expect to muster Irish troops to help Britain in a war. Moreover, considering Northern Ireland a part of Eire, the de Valera Government does not want the six counties mixed up with a war. Last week the British Government announced the beginnings of conscription (see p. 20). Promptly Viscount Craigavon, Prime Minister of Northern Ireland, announced that Northern Ireland was a "most loyal part of the United Kingdom and would deeply resent any suggestion that she should not be included in the military training bill...
...suddenly canceled his trip to. the U. S. to see President Roosevelt and the New York World's Fair. Simultaneously Mr. de Valera informed British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain that his Government would take a "serious view" of any attempt to conscript Irishmen, whether they live in Eire, Northern Ireland, England, Scotland or Wales...
...President Duncan John Kerr of Lehigh Valley R. R. was nominated to become a director of Great Northern Ry. A Scot who likes bridge, fishing and "just being in Montana," Railroader Kerr will probably be the next Great Northern president, succeeding William P. Kenney, who died in January...
...Civil War was, as some have called it, the Second American Revolution, Thad Stevens was its leading Jacobin. Much attention has been focused on his thorny character, little on his role in history. The Northern beneficiaries of his Reconstruction ruthlessness have guillotined him with forgetfulness. In the sense that any interest in Stevens is new, Author Alphonse Miller contributes a useful biography, benefits largely by the sweep of the historical and political drama...