Word: sinn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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About this time the British conveniently "discovered" a pro-German plot in Ireland and in a huge midnight round-up arrested and carted off to England hundreds of prominent Sinn Feiners, including de Valera. The T.D.'s still at large then met, proclaimed the Irish Republic and named de Valera its "President." After that daring supporters smuggled the "President" out of jail, and the Irish "secret service" of Michael Collins, also a veteran of the Easter Rebellion, managed to get him on a ship to the U. S., long fertile ground for Irish nationalism. There he did what many...
...Traitor!" For five years the man who now controls the destiny of Ireland stood pat in his demand for a simon-pure, all-Ireland Republic. Then in 1926 he suddenly proposed to his party of Sinn Feiners that they enter the Irish Free State Legislature on condition that they would not have to swear to the oath of allegiance to George V. His proposal was promptly rejected, and he walked out of the Party to form the Fianna Fail (Militia of Destiny). Later he took the oath and entered the Dail. Old Republican "incorruptibles" shouted "Traitor!" They still...