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Died. John Aloysius Costello, 84, twice Prime Minister of Ireland and former leader of the conservative Fine Gael party; of cancer; in Dublin. After his surprise victory in 1948 over his longtime rival, Fianna Fail Leader Eamon de Valera, Costello quipped, "I feel rotten. Last Saturday I was a free man." But he energetically pursued his task, breaking Ireland's final constitutional link to Britain with the repeal of the External Relations Act. Costello lost the prime ministership to De Valera in 1951, won it back in 1954, lost it again in 1957 and quit politics...
Members of the present Cabinet, the seventh since government headquarters was moved to France from Mexico in 1945, include three veterans of the Spanish Civil War-President Jose Maldonado, 74, Premier Fernando Valera, 79, and Deputy Premier Julio Just, 81-plus four younger refugees from more recent political purges in Franco's Spain. In addition to the Boulogne headquarters, there are embassies in Mexico and Yugoslavia, the only two countries that recognize the Republicans as the legitimate government of Spain. The government publishes monthly newspapers in Paris, Mexico City, New York and Buenos Aires, and it issues passports, which...
...simply a relic of the past: "We are the future of Spain. We alone represent the vast majority of Spanish who are Republicans." The attempt to return Spain to monarchy through the succession of Prince Juan Carlos, warns Maldonado, "will necessarily lead to violence and chaos." Premier Valera is more specific: "For the usurper Juan Carlos, we foresee a war without mercy. Instead of climbing carpeted stairs to the throne, he will be forced to mount the scaffold. Regicide awaits...
Many exiles concede, however, that Spain's younger liberals and leftists probably do not even think about the government in exile any more. Even the fiery Valera has had moments of realistic resignation. "We're getting old," he said at a Republican gathering in 1974, "and we'll disappear soon. We won't ever take over." At least one triumph, however, seemed virtually assured to Valera and his fellow veterans. They were close to winning their 40-year struggle to outlive the Generalissimo...
Cozy Homesteads. Tweaking John Bull's nose proved costly. Through the 1930s, the British government raised tariff barriers. To counter Britain's economic warfare, De Valera promoted self-sufficiency. "Ireland her own," he intoned, "Ireland her own without suit or service, rent or render, faith or fealty to any power under heaven." In 1937, the Free State declared itself a wholly independent country called Eire, thus severing the last of the links to England, and Dev became Taoiseach (pronounced tee-shock) or Prime Minister...