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...Euston Station were swept aside like chaff by a crowd of grinning Irishmen who were more than willing to punch the nose of any officer who resisted. With shouts of "WE WANT DEV!", the Irish captured a platform up to which rolled a train bearing President Eamon de Valera. They clawed and climbed their way to the roof of the train -something which in England "isn't done" -cheered and waved Irish flags while the President of Eire was distinctly of two minds. Should he come out, certain to be acclaimed but possibly to be assassinated (as so many...
Meanwhile it transpired that during the past few months Eamon de Valera, while ostensibly traveling between Dublin and Geneva on League business, has been making little stopovers in London, negotiating on the quiet with Britain's Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs, Malcolm MacDonald, the earnest, able, bespectacled, innocent-looking son of Scotland's late great Ramsay. Since 1932 the United Kingdom and the Free State have been engaged in a bitter tariff war, each deliberately rigging its schedules to hurt the other as much as possible. Another old sore is Free State resentment at the United Kingdom...
When the vote was taken, de Valera deputies were joined by those of the official Opposition led by famed William T. Cosgrave. With only the Laborites still opposed, Dublin's de facto recognition of Rome's conquest was voted 72-to-11. Since each ambassador or minister of King George is the direct personal representative of His Majesty, the appointing of an Irish Free State minister at Rome accredited to "Victor Emanuel III, King of Italy and Emperor of Ethiopia" had to be done by George VI. Mr. de Valera therefore posted a letter direct to Buckingham Palace...
...hopeful that there would yet be found some loophole by which King George could avoid placing himself in the inconsistent position of recognizing Vittorio Emanuele as "Emperor" at the Irish Legation in Rome and refusing to do so at the British Embassy. Tartly the Manchester Guardian commented: "Mr. de Valera is steadily developing his theory that while the King is divisible, Ireland...
This was more than jest. Mr. John Whelan Dulanty, the High Commissioner in London for the Irish Free State, was reported last week ready to observe the coming into effect of the de Valera Constitution next week by assuming his new title "High Commissioner for Ireland"-i.e. by implication for all Ireland, including not only the Free State but also Ulster. Mr. Dulanty was reported to have taken delivery of letterheads with his new title. Next week under its new Constitution the Irish Free State will also drop its present title and style itself "Ireland...