Word: posted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Russians stood by icily as the Assembly voted 43 to 6 to pass the veto resolution. At his post in the Chambers delicatessen, Sam Schulman was well pleased with Mr. McNeil's work. As for Russia, Sam expressed a harsh and highly undiplomatic opinion. "Russia is no good," he said sadly. "Absolutely no good...
...Easter Monday 33 years ago a pale, impassioned schoolmaster named Patrick Pearse marched out of the door of Dublin's General Post Office, hauled a flag of green, white and orange to the peak of the flagpole and in a ringing voice hurled a challenge at his British overlords: "Supported by her exiled children in America and by gallant allies in Europe ... Ireland strikes in full confidence of victory . . . We hereby proclaim the Irish Republic as a Sovereign Independent State...
...words were answered by a rattle of gunfire. Ten days later Pearse was dead before a British firing squad. The Post Office itself was a smoldering ruin and Ireland's gentle countryside was plunged into a wave of terror...
Gloomy Old Dev. In Dublin this week, before the rebuilt post-office building on O'Connell Street, Pearse's challenge was read once again. It was answered once again by the roar of cannon. But this time the guns were firing orderly salutes. Ireland was formally a Republic. By the External Relations Act (passed last December and proclaimed this week) it had severed its last direct tie with the British crown. For the first time since Pope Adrian IV, 795 years ago, gave the island to England's King Henry II, Ireland was independent...
...which it usually honors the winners of its annual awards (see THEATER). George Jean Nathan (Journal-American and other Hearst papers), grumpy granddaddy of the critics, was heard to mumble something to the effect that it was "humiliating" to have to mingle with actors. But Colleague Richard Watts Jr. (Post Home News) confessed that this was not the whole story of how the critics really feel: "The melancholy truth is that most of them don't really like each other...