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...Irishmen would have it that last week "King George received a direct, personal snub from President de Valera." Actually the tall, teacherish, wild-haired executive of the Irish Free State (which Irishmen say "is not Irish, is not Free and is not a State") conveyed to Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald a polite, though stiff intimation that "in existing circumstances" he "will not be able" to attend the Royal Jubilee with other dominion heads. In attendance, however, will be the Irish Free State's London-resident High Commissioner...
TIME'S report (TIME, Nov. 19, p. 40) of the recognition once accorded such literary greats as "France's" Maeterlinck and more especially Sweden's" Björnson serves only to accentuate the injustice done that staunch English patriot Eamon De Valera. Surely his contributions in word and deed to the development of a better understanding between neighboring people call for the award of a Nobel prize, that for the promotion of peace being perhaps the most appropriate...
Married. Cecil Calvert Smith, 30, 10-goal member of the West polo team; and Mary Mulford Miller, 20. Long Island socialite; in Wading River, Long Island, N. Y. Married. Frank Aiken, Irish Free State Minister for Defense, "only bachelor in the de Valera Cabinet''; and Maud Davin, director of the Dublin Municipal School of Music; in Dublin...
...Irish quarrel. Following the treaty setting up the Irish Free State, an agreement was made whereby owners of great Irish estates were to be reimbursed for their land by the British Government, which in turn was to receive annuities collected by the Irish Government. The Government of Eamon de Valera refused two-and-a-half years ago to send this money to Britain, but kept collecting half of it to pay government expenses. Free State farmers, however, far from grateful for having their payments halved, refused to see why they should pay even that half. Last week's cattle...
President Eamon de Valera deigned to pay his first visit to a cinema in Ireland for the film's premiere in Dublin.. Most of the Irish Free State Cabinet was also on hand. And smiling behind the fluttering ribbons of his glasses went William Butler Yeats. Man of Aran has not yet been released...