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Just how badly Anglo-Irish relations were bruised when Prime Minister MacDonald and President de Valera buffeted each other verbally behind the trim white-framed door of No. 10 Downing Street (TIME, June 20) was revealed to the Empire last week by Secretary for Dominions James Henry ("Jim'') Thomas, onetime engine cleaner...
...President de Valera is willing to arbitrate the issue of Irish Annuities (sums paid to compensate former absentee landlords dispossessed of their Irish estates) but is not willing that this arbitration should be by any court or tribunal composed exclusively of subjects of the King-Emperor...
...President de Valera proposes to abolish the oath to George V by unilateral (one-sided) action of the Free State Chamber & Senate, refusing to arbitrate that issue...
...special touch was necessary, so the Corporation planned to greet him in cocked hats, sable & scarlet robes lined with Irish poplin. Suitably robed also were to be those 16 Irish gentlemen who will carry the Canopy of the Blessed Sacrament in the procession, among whom would be: President de Valera, Vice President Sean Thomas O'Kelly, ex-President William Thomas Cosgrave, Speaker Francis Patrick Fahy, Senate Chairman Thomas William Westropp Bennett, and dapper, jimmy-walkeresque Lord Mayor Alfred Byrne of Dublin...
Died. Catherine T. Coll Wheelwright, 74, mother of President Eamon de Valera of the Irish Free State; after long illness; in Rochester, N. Y. An Irishwoman from Bruree, County Limerick, she bore President de Valera by her first husband (Vivian de Valera, a Spanish sculptor and musician long dead) hard by where Manhattan's Chrysler Building now stands...