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Efforts of the Irish nation to tame itself and settle down climaxed at Dublin last week with tense drama in the Dail. Everyone remembers how after World War I the untamed, scraggly-haired, wild-eyed figure of Eamon de Valera barnstormed among Irish groups all over the U. S., spouting treason to George V, proclaiming himself "President of the Irish Republic" and passing the hat for its "Irish Republican Army," whose stalwarts the British Government treated as "common criminals, murderers and cutthroats." Today, tame and respected Eamon de Valera is a shrewd conciliator of Great Britain and a pillar...
...Valera Cabinet, continued its Minister of Justice, was quite unable last week to recover the munitions stolen from Phoenix Park, as they had no idea where these were, but they proposed instead to arrest wholesale every member of the I.R.A., which has been outlawed for the past three-and-a-half years. Up to now the Eire Constitution has prevented anyone arrested merely on suspicion from being held more than 48 hours without evidence, but Minister Boland introduced bills sweeping away this safeguard to civil lib erties, and in effect making Eamon de Valera a dictator, with powers to have...
...There will be only one Government functioning - that one freely elected by the people!" cried Prime Minister de Valera in a fighting speech. In the lobbies of the Dail, meanwhile, it was whispered that I. R. A. plans were for a combined insurrection and war to overthrow the Governments of both Eire and Northern Ireland, sweep away the intervening fron tier and proclaim the Irish Republic - a move which Great Britain would certainly answer by sending an expeditionary force to Ireland as she did to crush the "Easter Rebellion" of 1916. Thus what members of the Dail faced last week...
...Prime Minister Eamon de Valera of Eire, renewed I. R. A. activity was bad news. No one has insisted more emphatically that Eire and Northern Ireland should be one nation, nor has he been anything but independent of Great Britain. Last week, in a radio broadcast to the U. S. in which he urged that peace in Europe be negotiated now, Mr. de Valera slipped in a request for U. S. moral support "to our efforts to have the partition of our country immediately brought to an end." But most embarrassing to the Prime Minister would be a violent attempt...
...Eire's leaders are: President, Douglas Hyde; Premier, Eamon de Valera; Defense Minister, Frank Aiken. Northern Ireland's: Governor, The Duke of Abercorn; Premier, Viscount Craigavon of Stormont...