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Grown overconfident after his defy to the British Government last month, Free State President Eamon de Valera lost a trick last week to his Fascist foe blue-shirted General Owen O'Duffy. Last fortnight de Valera men stopped the blue-shirted General on his way to address a County Mayo meeting of the blue-shirted party he had just renamed the "League of Youth" after the President banned it as the Young Ireland Association...
Martyrs prosper in Irish air. Suddenly the cries were "Up O'Duffy!" "Down with the Broy Harriers!", the latter a play on the name of Dublin Police Chief Broy and a famed Irish pack of fast but craven rabbit hounds. De Valera men countered with tales of the soft life O'Duffy would lead in the Arbour Hill Prison outside Dublin. The Arbour Hill Prison under Minister of Defence Frank Aiken has won the name of "Aiken's Grand Hotel." The General resided in the "Grand barely 48 hours. His lawyers apparently agreed with the State...
...Valera. He dug up a newspaper report that O'Dufty had said in a speech in County Donegal that "Mr. De Valera and his party murdered Kevin O'Higgins and Michael Collins and de Valera is now entitled to the fate he gave Collins and O'Higgins". Since those two Irish patriots were assassinated, Mr. de Valera called General O'Duffy up for trial before a military tribunal on charges of "incitement to murder the President." ( Indignantly General O'Duffy replied: " I emphatically deny that I, by word or implication or in any other...
...every Irishman knows, the deeper issue lay last week between President de Valera's defiance of Britain and General...
Last week President de Valera was trying to hop out of that big puddle, the British Commonwealth of Nations. Replying to a warning by British Secretary for the Dominions Jim Thomas that the Free State would lose its Dominion privileges if it continued to repudiate its duties. President de Valera wrote Mr. Thomas last week that he planned to lead the Free State rapidly toward complete independence. Mr. Thomas had a handy reply. If the Free State becomes a republic, he declared, the 300,000 Irishmen living in Britain must choose between Irish and British citizenship. If they choose Irish...