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...British. In 1921, Maud became the first representative of the Free State in Paris. Soon, however, the Free State began to bear down on her beloved Irish Republican Army. Maud resigned her official post. At 70 she was still mounting carts in Dublin to inveigh against De Valera for his treatment of the Republicans...
...unnerved by the excitement of the occasion, reared, almost overturned the landau, broke loose and dashed off. The hussars scattered. Dubliners considered this incident alone made the show a success. When Eire's No. 1 Army band (conducted by a German) played God Save the King!, Eamon de Valera smiled sourly as he stood at attention in what used to be the royal box. Whether he liked it or not the British team won the big event, the international military jumping contest...
...make up 33% of his constituents. "Many of the audience employ Catholics," he said, "but I have not one about my place." The next July 12 Sir Basil recalled: "I recommended people not to employ Roman Catholics, who are 99% disloyal." (Meanwhile, down in Eire, Taoiseach Eamon de Valera was saying: "Ulster's rejection of an all-Ireland union is an outrage which Irishmen throughout the world will resent...
...During the intermissions we could introduce the greatest living personalities from every field of life: church dignitaries, scientists, statesmen, farmers, the working class, Jews, Arabs and Negroes. We might even ask Uncle Joe to say a few words and . . . De Gaulle, and Gandhi, the King of Norway and De Valera. . . . "This is the eleventh hour of civilization, and music is the universal language . . . My plan is good for five years and the emergency will last that long...
Next day the Government organ, The Irish Press, learnedly explained: "The Greek words used by Mr. de Valera were poluphloisboio thalasses. They mean 'of the loud, resounding sea,' and are from Homer's Iliad, Book One, line...