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Transferred to Dominions Secretary he had his first big job in settling the troublesome Eire-British trade war with a treaty satisfactory to both countries. Young MacDonald knew more about birds than either Ornithologists Neville Chamberlain or Eamon de Valera, and that knowledge came in handy when he wanted to deal lightly either with Boss Chamberlain or Antagonist de Valera...
Perversely Anglophile as ever, Ouseley-Gogarty leaves De Valera's Ireland to visit his old friend, the vicar of Mea Culpa at Waltham Whirling on the Thames. He discovers the vicar's niece Parmenis, who is as rude as she is beautiful. He reminisces about undergraduate roistering at Oxford; the result is a fair example of the unresting Gogarty wit and the chief Gogarty interest: "I could not help recalling the scene, near midnight one long-vanished summer, between the bridges of the canal behind the college, the silhouetted bowler hats of the proctors converging from each side...
...execution day approached, Eire's Government did all in its power to stay the hanging. Prime Minister Eamon de Valera's record on the subject was unmistakably clear. He had forcefully condemned I,. R. A. direct action. An I. R. A. veteran himself, he had nevertheless outlawed the organization at home. Publicly he had declared that the program of terrorism "has put us back" in Eire's official-and legal-campaign for the union of Ireland. But none knew better than Mr. de Valera that Barnes and Richards dead on English gallows would rekindle anti-British feeling...
...with skull and cross bones through Dublin's streets. They tried to storm the British Representative's office. At the Post Office, bloody scene of the 1916 Easter Rebellion, they stood silent for two minutes. Sports were canceled, cinemas closed. At Mountjoy Prison, where once Mr. de Valera himself was jailed and where in 1922 the British shot Rory O'Connor, railroad engineer and onetime I. R. A. staff member, a crowd burned the Union Jack...
Since the I. R. A. has more than once killed prominent Irishmen who voted to suppress it, the Dail strove to protect its members' lives by balloting in secret last week, and the vote was announced as 82-to-9 favoring de Valera's emergency bill. The Senate followed 62-to-7, and straight way de Valera sent out 5,000 Special Police armed with rifles to hunt down the I. R. A. All ports of Eire and the frontier with Northern Ireland were carefully manned and police with rifles took over what amounted to military guard...