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...government of long-necked Eamon de Valera was accused by the governors of the Cork North Infirmary last week of withholding nearly $2,600,000 due to Irish hospitals as results of the last three Irish Hospitals' Sweepstakes (on the November Handicap, the Grand National, the Derby...
...Walter Richard Nugent, Irish Senator and Chairman of the Great Southern Railways of Ireland, announced at a stockholders meeting last week that unless President de Valera called off his tariff war with Britain, the fall in freight loadings would force the Great Southern to abandon all service and return its territory to the pony and the jaunting car. He was particularly bitter against the $1 a ton tax on British coal. The fire-boxes of his locomotives are adjusted for Brit ish coal only...
...easy settlement with Great Britain could be attained if Mr. de Valera would realize his duty to the people and think less of his personal vanity. I challenge him to declare without equivocation whether he intends to set up an Irish republic...
President de Valera woggled his large Adam's apple but did not reply...
...Ramsay MacDonald boarded a seaplane at Lossiemouth and flew St. George's Channel to the Marquess of Londonderry's house at Mount Stewart. County Down, Northern Ireland. In Ireland observers leaped to the conclusion that he was there to hold a series of secret meetings with de Valera representatives on the annuities problem. Some added an additional detail: Scot MacDonald's trip to Ireland was at the request of delegates to the Ottawa conference (see p. 12) who are restless for an early solution. All these stories Scot MacDonald went to great lengths to deny...