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...course the Free State did not declare its independence next day. Instead President de Valera consented to meet Prime Minister MacDonald again face to face, traveling for this purpose to London last week, as he did last month before Scot MacDonald left for Lausanne (TIME, June 20). Again they flatly disagreed, an event which so upset old George Lansbury, leader of the Labor Opposition in the House of Commons, that he cried: "I call upon the Pope and the Archbishop of Canterbury to intervene! . . . We have started a fight with Ireland the end of which...
Hurrying back to Dublin, President de Valera was rousingly cheered. Dublin's Republican newspaper An Phoblacht cried: "We are the one country in Western Europe that can face temporary isolation with enthusiasm! We have ample source of food and other essentials." Next morning Dublin awoke to find buildings, billboards and even lamp posts plastered with: BOYCOTT BRITISH GOODS...
Dublin officials pointed out that the Free State can easily obtain from the U. S., France, Germany and Belgium the manufactured goods she has previously bought from Great Britain. "That would realize," said President de Valera, "another ideal: direct, economic touch with other nations. In times of shrinking foreign markets ours is not a trifle...
Pointing out that Great Britain expects to be paid in "land annuities" nearly one-quarter of the tax revenue of the Free State, Mr. de Valera exclaimed: "Britain finds the ?37.000,000 due the United States [yearly] almost unbearable. What appeal would she not make to the world if she had to transmit abroad a fourth of her tax revenue as we have had to do! ... If she paid the United States proportionately as much as she expects us to pay, she would pay the United States...
...courses are possible. Either after a lapse of 18 months the bill will automatically become law, despite the Senate opposition, or President de Valera can advise Governor General James McNeill to dissolve the Senate at once and declare a general election. In Dublin it had been currently said that, "McNeill and de Valera aren't on speaking terms," but last week the President called on the Governor General, presumably spoke and was spoken...