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League Council. When President Eamon de Valera of the Irish Free State became President of the League Council (by alphabetical rotation) last week at Geneva British journalists started a story that he would open it in Gaelic, thus setting off a chorus...
...Dublin last week a mildly Fascist group of veterans of the Irish Free State army and the prede Valera Republican army was organized as "The Free State Army Comrades Association." President: Dr. Thomas O'Higgins, member of the Dail and good friend of former President William T. Cosgrave. Their first pronunciamento attacked Communism "or any disguised form of it introduced surreptitiously into the country." In addition the Comrades Association attacked long-necked President de Valera and his tariff war with Great Britain: "We regard as charged with extremely dangerous potentialities the new fashion of branding as traitors certain public...
...reprisal the de Valera government secretly recalled hundreds, of their more violent followers exiled to Canada and the U. S. by the Cosgrave government. At Saint John, New Brunswick reporters found one Vincent Boyle who admitted that he had received $100 and passage back to Ireland from the present Minister for Defense, Frank Aiken, that he was on his way to New York to join 700 more returning to Ireland...
...Intent on furthering his economic war, Eamon de Valera had lengthy conferences last week with the six Free State commissioners who regulate Irish currency. Rumors would not be denied that they were discussing the possibility of establishing a separate decimal Irish currency based on the dollar instead of the pound, a move sure to be popular with school children, bookkeepers, adding machine manufacturers and Anglophobes. In 1926, four years after the establishment of the Irish Free State, the entire Irish dollar question was gone into exhaustively by a commission headed by Economist Dr. Henry Parker Willis of New York...
...Spanish Army, constitute myself captain-general of Andalusia and order all previous dispositions concerning the public order superseded. I also declare the present local authorities without jurisdiction. Viva Espana!" An hour later Seville was in General Sanjurjo's hands. Arrested and clapped into the military barracks were Governor Valera Valverde, the mayor, the chief of police and seven councilmen. Lieut.-Colonel Marquis de Sauceda was named Governor of Seville. From Algeciras and from Jerez de la Frontera, where all Spain's sherry is made, came mutinying troops to join the rebels. At Cartagena a naval garrison mutinied...