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...letter of condolence on George V's death was sent by President Eamon de Valera to Queen Mary but in Dublin, on the advice of Irish jurists, the President found it "unnecessary" to proclaim Edward VIII King of the Free State Irish. In Belfast he was duly proclaimed King of the Northern Irish...
...drumming up votes by promoting him to "one of the five ministries which carry the rank and pay of a full Secretary of State." Eden was being mentioned as Secretary of State for Dominions, with hopes voiced that if any Briton can charm Irish Free State President Eamon de Valera into complacence, charming Captain Eden can. Though all this seemed most premature, British manufacturers of headgear known as an "Eden hat," factually reported that last week London shops abruptly stopped reordering...
...dropped dead of a heart attack (TIME, April 16, 1934). Last week the new U. S. Minister to the Irish Free State, Alvin Mansfield Owsley, set out for Dublin Castle to present his credentials, not to King George's representative, Governor General Donal Buckley, but to President Eamon de Valera...
...behind an escort of Free State cavalry, brilliant in blue and saffron full-dress uniforms with orange plumes in their helmets. At the castle yard a battalion of infantry, in green, saluted him. Officers with drawn swords led him upstairs to St. Patrick's Hall where waited President de Valera. Minister Owsley made a little prepared speech. The Free State President launched into a speech entirely in Gaelic, not a word of which did Minister Owsley understand. "Cead mille failte," cried de Valera, meaning "a hundred thousand welcomes." When the strange, rhythmic gurgling and throat-clearing stopped, Minister Owsley replied...
...Excepting President Eamon de Valera of the Irish Free State, who stayed home from the Royal Silver Jubilee (see above), the other Premiers of the British dominions took loyal high tea last week with Prime Minister MacDonald...