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James Ramsay MacDonald, glowing inspirer of many a conference, received a cold douche shortly before he left London, was visited at No. 10 Downing St. by intense, teacherish President Eamon de Valera of the Irish Free State. In five minutes the Scotsman and the Irishman had disagreed flatly concerning the Free State's right to abolish her Deputies' oath of fealty to England's King. Tight-lipped and hard-eyed, President de Valera left for Dublin and the Prime Minister's car sped from Downing Street to Buckingham Palace. As he has done several times before...
...Nelpha' mattress or bedstead." Dublin set up floodlights and searchlights, asked its citizens to help with electric lights and candles. An arclight, most powerful ever rigged up in Dublin, would write in the sky such inscriptions as "Hail the King-Adoremus-Laudamus Te." President Eamon de Valera's journal, The Irish Press, urged the Irish to plant trees in commemoration of this event, "one of the greatest ... in Irish history." So that visitors might drink freely of Ireland's excellent whiskies and malt brews, all Irish Free State circuit judges were permitted by a "Eucharistic Congress Bill...
...This is a poor man's budget!" declared the Finance Minister. Charging the previous Cosgrave Government with "faulty bookkeeping," he declared that the de Valera Government had found themselves faced with a "paper deficit" of ?630,000, which knocked President de Valera's plans for tax reduction to smithereens. Interrupted former Finance Minister Ernest Blythe: "Instead of a 'paper deficit' of ?630,000 we left you a surplus...
Good or bad, the MacEntee budget pleased the Laborites whose support keeps President de Valera in power. The President stuck last week to the job of keeping his other great campaign promise- his promise to abolish the Oath of Fealty to the King (TIME, Feb. 29, et seq.}. In Dublin the bill abolishing the Oath was before the Irish Senate having passed the Dail. Suddenly in London the beans were spilled by that pudgy-fingered, perennial bungler the Rt. Hon. James Henry ("Jim") Thomas, Minister of Dominions...
...retaliate by refusing to renew the tariff preferences she now grants to the Free State. Obviously the timing of this threat was such as to enrage the Irish Senate just before it voted. It increased the chances that the bill would pass. Quietly jubilant in Dublin, teacherish President de Valera dryly said...