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Deputy Dillon nearly swallowed his Adam's apple. "Will anyone tell me," he said, "when we became a republic?" Mr. de Valera merely smiled...
Deputy James Dillon itched with a question. In the Dail Eireann he put it to Prime Minister Eamon de Valera: "Are we a republic...
Cried Deputy Dillon: "When we ask the Prime Minister what we are, he says, 'Look at the British encyclopedia.' " Said Deputy Opposition Leader Dr. Thomas O'Higgins, the wag: De Valera's dictionary republic was two-headed-one head was an elected President within the state, the other a crowned King outside. It was most peculiar...
With consciously maddening meekness, the Taoiseach* (Eire's Prime Minister) turned his other cheek. To Winston Churchill's blistering attack on his World War II neutrality (TIME, May 21), Eamon de Valera replied: "I have deliberately decided that ... I will not be guilty of adding any fuel to the flames of hatred and passion which, if continued to be fed, promise to burn up whatever is left by the war of decent human feeling in Europe. Allowances can be made for Mr. Churchill's statement, however unworthy, in the first flush of his victory...
...away with it triumphantly, saved, as Mr. Churchill has just pointed out, by the abhorred partition, which gave the Allies a foothold in Ireland. ... It all sounds like an act from Victor Hugo's Hernani rather than a page of modern world war history; but Eamon de Valera comes out of it as a champion of the Christian chivalry we are all pretending to admire...