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...public has thought less about the fact that next week, when the newly adopted Irish Free State Constitution (TIME, July 12 et ante) goes into effect, His Majesty King George VI will have been completely erased from any constitutional status or even mention in the land of Eamon de Valera. This may be only a paper defeat for London, but tall, teacherish President de Valera used his parliament at Dublin last week to rub in his paper victory in a manner as annoying as possible to the English. To launch his Free State on a new foreign policy sharply different...
Laborite members of the Dail spoke feelingly last week against Mr. de Valera. Labor Party Leader William Norton declared flatly that the Emperor "has no more claim to that title than His Britannic Majesty has to authority over Ireland, which was not given to him by the Irish people...
...Dundalk, Irish Free State, Julia Clark of Glasgow, Scotland, was sentenced to one month in jail and deportation, for violating Section 18 of the 1935 criminal code (de Valera's vice law) which forbids "any act ... offending modesty or causing scandal or injuring the morals of the community." Her offense: Kissing her sweetheart in public...
President Eamon de Valera ran last week for a third term. Election of an Irish Free State President is by the Dail, itself just newly elected in a poll which failed to give de Valera's Fianna Fail Party the absolute majority for which the President had hoped (TIME, July 12). Fianna Fail won 69 seats, exactly the same number as the total held by all other parties combined. Free State Laborites continued last week to vote in loose coalition with Fianna Fail, and Eamon de Valera was elected President for the third time by a smashing Dail vote...
...make this change will take time and require another election in about six months. Moreover, lacking a clear majority, Mr. de Valera will have to make concessions to the Labor Party to secure its support. Nothing seemed likely to be done for the present about the most ominous feature of the new Constitution: it purports to be the Constitution not of the Irish Free State alone but of all Ireland, including the six counties of Ulster or Northern Ireland which are now part of the United Kingdom. To hotheads who want "Dev" at once to take drastic action...