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...speech was lit up by a blaze of Churchillian anger at Prime Minister Eamon de Valera for remaining obstinately neutral throughout...
...Owing to the action of Mr. de Valera, so much at variance with the temper and instinct of thousands of southern Irishmen, who hastened to the battlefront to prove their ancient valor, the approaches which the southern Irish ports and airfields could so easily have guarded were closed by the hostile aircraft and U-boats. This was indeed a deadly moment in our life, and if it had not been for the loyalty and friendship of northern Ireland, we should have been forced to come to close quarters with Mr. de Valera or perish forever from the earth. However, with...
Died. General Eoin (Owen) O'Duffy, 52, bellicose, hard-drinking, hunger-striking Irish revolutionary, who fought under the late great Michael Collins in "The Trouble," headed the Free State Army when Collins died, commanded the Irish Civic Guard until Eamon de Valera ousted him in 1933, promptly organized the Fascist Blue Shirts in retaliation; in Dublin. "Give 'Em the Lead" O'Duffy, son of a North Ireland farmer, had a voice that could make a policeman jump a block away, the smile of a man who knew he had to keep his eyes open. As president...
...Instead, they went into secret session, unanimously approved General Mulcahy's security plan and his leadership, announced they would fight enough seats next election to form a government if they won. Cried the Dublin Irish Times, which does not like Eire's gloomy Prime Minister Eamon de Valera: "General Mulcahy's speech comes like a draught of fresh air into the fetid atmosphere of Irish make-believe...
...more than 20 years of roving an uneasy Europe, she has interviewed nearly all the top history-makers, including Stalin, Hitler, Mussolini, De Valera, Blum, Dollfuss, Schuschnigg. She is the only woman ever to serve on the governing editorial council of the New York Times. In 1937 she became the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for foreign correspondence. For her, President Roosevelt regularly violates his rule against private interviews with reporters...