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After a busy holiday eve lunching with Irish Premier Eamon de Valera, holding a full Cabinet meeting and clearing his desk, Sir Winston Churchill slipped away for a two-week vacation at the Riviera villa owned by Publisher Lord Beaverbrook. Puckishly traveling incognito as "Mr. Hyde," although 300 well-wishers gathered at London Airport to see him off and several hundred more met him at Cap d'Ail, Sir Winston was accompanied by his daughter Mary and her husband, Captain Christopher Soames, two secretaries and three Scotland Yard inspectors. "Cap d'Ail has received its mayor...
...Dublin, Eire's Prime Minister Eamon de Valera told Parliament that he and other members of his government had turned down invitations to a Coronation Day garden party at the British embassy for obvious reasons: the title, Queen Elizabeth II "of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland," was "unnecessarily and deliberately linked up by the British government with the partition of our country...
Maud Gonne wore widow's weeds for MacBride, but also for Ireland. She did not agree with Eamon de Valera's government. She wrote her memoirs, and was outraged when Communist organizers came to Ireland in 1930 and "one young puppy had the cheek to tell me they had come to teach us how to fight." Bedridden but still a political force, she backed her son, Sean MacBride, and his Republican Party in a successful campaign against De Valera in 1948, but when she went to the polls, one who saw her cried: "That woman is exactly like...
Last week De Valera named a replacement who is not likely to move out of the chair voluntarily, no matter how hot it becomes. The new editor: James Pearse McGuinness ("I spell it the same way as the stout"), 33, who was born in the walled city of Derry and, as a Catholic in Protestant Northern Ireland, learned to fight early. He quickly became a single-minded Irish Republican. In 1939, when the illegal "Irish Republican army" declared "war" on the British Empire, he volunteered to fight on British soil. He slipped into Britain, brags that he helped...
Later he became the paper's editorial writer and parliamentary correspondent. Last week, when his appointment as editor was announced, the competing Irish Times (circ. 38,000) gave him an Irish sendoff: "The fact that he was given the job so young might suggest that [De Valera's party] hoped to have somebody pliable. If so, they could not have made a worse choice . . . Whether he will be able to keep his political master in order remains to be seen. But certainly they will not be able to muzzle...