Word: republicanisms
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Fianna Fail: This party 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...
...declaration, since become famous as Document No. 2, Mr. de Valera, set forth the aims of his Republican group: government vested solely in the Irish people; association with full Dominion status with the states of the British Commonwealth of Nations; recognition of "His Britannic Majesty" as the head of the association. This, said Mr. de Valera will bring the "Republic to the brow of the precipice." His proposals were refused, however. They meant, in effect, a separate sovereignty for Ireland instead of recognizing the common citizenship of the Commonwealth. Such conditions were not acceptable to the London government...
...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...
...which U. S. Senator Hiram Bingham, Republican, recently urged President Coolidge to recognize after an exhaustive survey of China (TIME, July...
Married. Onetime (1913-16) Assistant Secretary of War, Col. Henry S. Breckenridge, Princeton '07; to Mrs. Aida de Acosta Root, onetime wife of a nephew of potent Republican jurist Elihu Root; in Washington...