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...Great Britain will retaliate by refusing to renew the tariff preferences she now grants to the Free State. Obviously the timing of this threat was such as to enrage the Irish Senate just before it voted. It increased the chances that the bill would pass. Quietly jubilant in Dublin, teacherish President de Valera dryly said...
...would welcome expulsion from the British Commonwealth of Nations," earnestly announced tall, teacherish President Eamon de Valera of the Irish Free State last week. "Expulsion would make us stand on our own feet now, just as we shall have to do later...
...order to become President, tall, stoop-shouldered, teacherish Mr. de Valera had to take, in writing, this oath...
Eamon de Valera used to teach mathematics. Teacherish in appearance, called "impractical" by his enemies, he is a Messiah of Freedom. In 1916 he was sentenced to Death for commanding insurgents against King George, but his sentence was commuted to penal servitude for life, and the General Amnesty of 1917 made him free. Elected to a seat in the London Parliament, he refused to sit, was "elected" by his Irish friends "President" of the "Irish Republic" (illegal) and as such rejected the Treaty of 1921 which, nevertheless, set up the Irish Free State. Later, Mr. de Valera resigned as "President...
Sowing Crisis. The confession of the No. 1 prisoner, Professor Leonid Ramzin, until his arrest Chairman of the All-Union Heating Institute, was too long to be got through at a single session of the Court. Standing primly before the microphone Professor Ramzin began in teacherish tones, "I am guilty. I do not know what to say in my defense," then spoke for three hours while everyone smoked...