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...rage the Governor General re leased to the Press statements that he has been "discourteously treated" ever since the de Valera Cabinet came in. Defying Mr. de Valera personally, the Governor General wrote to the President, "I know you have a majority in the Dail, aid I know that you can have me removed. ... I do not think I should resign my office because other officeholders think I am a suitable target for ill-conditioned bad manners...
...other officeholders" are two members of the de Valera Cabinet who made the Governor General their "target" by leaving a dance at the French Legation in Dublin directly he appeared. This insult, according to virtually the entire Press of Great Britain last week, was intolerable. The Governor General was lauded for disregarding President de Valera's official and mandatory advice that he keep his wounded feelings to himself. Mr. de Valera assured His Excellency that if he will give timely notice of his public movements to the Free State Cabinet in the future, "no more such incidents will occur...
Doing No Wrong? "If England wants a fight, England can have a fight!" cried de Valera Deputy Corey in the Dail. "Ireland is no longer going to be the kitchen garden of England...
Previously President de Valera, by no means spoiling for a fight, had exclaimed, "I appeal once more to the British, asking them to state unequivocally that the people of Ireland would not be interfered with by hostile British action should they declare their independence...
President de Valera: I mean the kind of action one person takes against another when one feels that the other has done him wrong. I hold that we should be doing no wrong to Great Britain by declaring our absolute independence tomorrow...