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...Dublin, President Eamon de Valera mailed a secret answer to the secret British note he received last month and drew a second secret British note. This game of whispering behind the public's back (due to British refusal to allow publicity) could of course go on forever. But President de Valera bluntly announced that when the Free State Parliament meets April 20 he will introduce "a short amendment, only about 100 words long" to wipe the oath of fealty to the King out of the Free State Constitution...
Like St. Gandhi?though in less degree ?President de Valera is opposed to the Machine Age, vigorously encourages farming, dairying, stock breeding, handicrafts and small-scale peasant industry. The famed Shannon River Power Station has wrought its chief results not in supplying industrial power but in lighting tiny cottages, keeping craftsmen's lathes turning...
...Were Free. . ." Not quite ready to release his reply to Britain, which he had finally succeeded in drafting last week. President de Valera (son of a Spaniard) gave an interview of marked lucidity to a fellow Latin, Jules Sauerwein, famed Foreign News Editor of the Paris Matin...
Friends close to the President said that his note to Britain, although "conciliatory.'' will serve definite notice that he means to ask the Free State Parliament to abolish Oaths and Annuities when it meets April 20th. Privately. Irish lawyers who had advised Mr. de Valera, advised the Press that Canadian Premier Bennett had misinterpreted, in their opinion, the Empire definition of "dominion status." The Free State, after dropping the Oath, would still have its Governor General, they argued. The King would still appoint the G. G. and the Free State would still be "associated as a member of the British...
Retorted President de Valera, also in Hearstpapers. "Lloyd George was the chief architect of the partition of Ireland. ... He belongs to a world that is dead...