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...contains the other section of the original Sinn Fein party-those that refused to accept the Anglo-Irish treaty- and is led by Eamon de Valera. It is the principal Republican group in the Free State. Until a fortnight ago it steadfastly refused to enter the Dail unless the oath of allegiance to King George were removed. It recanted from this stand, however, and took the oath as "a matter of form (TIME...
...swearing Mr. De Valera complied after five years of refusal with article XVII of the Irish Free State constitution which permits no member of the Free State Parliament to take his seat until he has taken the oath of allegiance. With Mr. De Valera swore the 44 deputies of his Fianna Fail or Republican party. To a strictly judicial ear such mass swearing must have seemed to mean only one thing: formal abandonment by Eamon De Valera of his life-long battle to carve asunder from Britain an "Irish Republic...
...signed statement which they made public before swearing: "So there can be no doubt as to their duty and no misunderstanding the Fianna Fail deputies hereby give public notice in advance to the Irish people and to all whom it may concern that they propose to regard the declaration [oath] as an empty formality and repeat that their only allegiance is to the Irish nation and that it will be given to no other power or authority...
This was "mental reservation" with a vengeance; and persons ignorant of Irish politics may well have asked: "Why did men who have steadfastly and courageously refused to swear an oath for five years decide to swear it in such ignoble fashion now?" A sufficient answer is that early last week the Free State Government headed by President William Thomas Cosgrave jammed through Parliament the Public Safety Bill under which the seats of deputies who do not take the oath may be declared vacant and a by-election ordered to fill them?no candidate being allowed to run unless he pledges...
...passage of this bill thus left the Fianna Fail only three options: 1) political extinction; 2) revolution; 3) taking the oath...