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...election day approached once again in Dublin, the opposition Fine Gael Party sought a way to defeat Mayor Briscoe, who belongs to Premier de Valera's Fianna Fail. Playing both sides against the middle, Fine Gael forsook its own candidate to throw its electoral weight behind a promising independent and thereby make sure that Mayor Briscoe failed to get the clear majority of the corporation votes which he needed for reelection. The result was another tie vote, 21 to 21, so into the hat once again went Briscoe's name, together with that of the independent candidate-City...
Tolling Bells. In much of the world Macmillan's decision was greeted with hope and delight. "At least and at last, negotiations that can mean something are in prospect," declared London's News Chronicle. From Dublin, Irish Premier Eamon de Valera sent Makarios a history of Eire's fight for independence, accompanied by a note describing the book as a gift "from one who understands and sympathizes." In Cyprus itself church bells tolled triumphantly, spelling out "Makarios" in an old Greek ringing code, and as the news spread from balcony to balcony, crowds poured into the streets...
King Radio. Already complaints are heard that U.S. calypso with its own topical allusions (e.g., "Don't blame Elvis for wiggling his pelvis," and "Happy Ireland has this to say: De Valera is here to stay") is corrupting a fine old tradition, just as oldtime jazz lovers thought big-band, arranged jazz was a sad decline from the old, improvised New Orleans roughhouse. In fact, few of the current U.S. calypso performers could compete with King Radio, a little one-eyed Trinidadian who is fondly remembered for his pithy self-portrait...
...symptomatic of Ireland's present difficulties that last week's elections were almost without issue. De Valera campaigned almost exclusively on the grounds that the coalition government of John A. Costello was too weak to govern effectively. The real question seemed to be whether any government can cure Ireland's ills...
Both Costello and De Valera are too good patriots to make a campaign issue of the flaming question of partition, emphasized in recent months by a sharp increase in border raids by the outlawed Irish Republican Army. Though campaign speeches by all contestants dutifully included at least one soaring reference to the injustice of dividing Northern and Southern Ireland, both the speakers and their listeners knew that none of the old men who lead Irish politics today, nor even men much younger than they, were likely to live to see partition's end. The Sinn Fein (We Ourselves) Party...