Word: saorstat
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...strife-1,200 outrages within a year and the shooting down in London itself by Irish assassins of Field Marshal Sir Henry Wilson. But even that crisis was solved after Prime Minister Lloyd George discovered that in the Irish tongue there is no word for "Republic." Created was a Saorstat ("Free State") which Englishmen can think of as a "dominion" while Irishmen plume themselves on the dignity of President Eamon de Valera who refuses to attend the Silver Jubilee next week and insists that Free Staters are "not British subjects...
...Irishman drank farewell toasts with his brothers of the Saorstat Corps. Said he: "Ten-thirty is my bedtime and I refuse to crawl in earlier just because there's a little job of flying over the Atlantic to be done tomorrow." It was midnight when he finally retired, in the room next to that of his eight-year-old daughter Pat, who, he said, "doesn't give a hump about all this flying." The Germans, strange figures in Ireland, plodded back to their quarters, the Baron to play a final game of solitaire, the phlegmatic Captain to make...
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