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...been overcome. All that remained was to get quietly on paper an invitation to Russia and a Russian acceptance in exact legal forms which would be mutually acceptable to both the Soviet Union and the majority of League states issuing the invitation. Erupted at this point President Eamon de Valera of the Irish Free State...
...endorsed it but rose to champion the idea that the few small nations still opposed should be invited to air their views in open assembly. Shaking a bony finger at his pet aversion, British Foreign Secretary Sir John Simon, and at M. Barthou, the Free State's de Valera cried: "The whole question of procedure should be properly considered, instead of in hotel rooms. . . . What is it reasonable for Russia to expect? She naturally wants to assure herself before applying for membership that she is not going to have the humiliation of having her application rejected. That...
...Free State this speech may have made President de Valera seem a bigger man, but at Geneva it stirred a hornet's nest among the small minority of small nations, such as Switzerland and Panama, still hostile to Russia's entry. The Swiss Government, strongly conservative, grew so excited that Swiss reporters at Berne conjectured fantastically, "If Russia is admitted we may resign and the League may have to move out of Switzerland." It took M. Barthou, Sir John and the Italian Chief Delegate, tall, hollow-cheeked Baron Pompeo Aloisi, about 24 hours to get the drafting work...
Their Lordships learned from Viscount Hailsham, Secretary for War, that the Irish Free State has refused to send a delegation to the Jubilee (May 6). On May 24 President de Valera's bill to abolish the Free State Senate and pave the way for proclamation of an Irish Republic is scheduled to become...
Died. William Wallace McDowell, 67, U. S. Minister to the Irish Free State, one-time Democratic State Chairman of Montana (TIME. April 9); of a heart attack while attending a dinner given in his honor by President Eamon de Valera; in Dublin...