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Fianna Fail: This party contains the other section of the original Sinn Fein party-those that refused to accept the Anglo-Irish treaty- and is led by Eamon de Valera. It is the principal Republican group in the Free State. Until a fortnight ago it steadfastly refused to enter the Dail unless the oath of allegiance to King George were removed. It recanted from this stand, however, and took the oath as "a matter of form (TIME...
...Eamon De Valera, whose very name is to Irishmen a clarion of revolt, pronounced and swore upon the Holy .Bible at Dublin last week an oath: "I, Eamon De Valera, do solemnly swear true faith and allegiance to the Constitution of the Irish Free State as by law established and that I will be faithful to His Majesty, King George V, his heirs and successors by law, in virtue of the common citizenship of Ireland with Great Britain and her adherence to and membership of the group of nations forming the British Commonwealth of Nations...
...swearing Mr. De Valera complied after five years of refusal with article XVII of the Irish Free State constitution which permits no member of the Free State Parliament to take his seat until he has taken the oath of allegiance. With Mr. De Valera swore the 44 deputies of his Fianna Fail or Republican party. To a strictly judicial ear such mass swearing must have seemed to mean only one thing: formal abandonment by Eamon De Valera of his life-long battle to carve asunder from Britain an "Irish Republic...
Significance. Since the present Free State executive council or "cabinet" has only 46 supporters in the Dail Eireann (lower chamber) of 153, the entrance of 45 De Valera deputies seemed to promise the swift overthrow of President Cosgrave whose office corresponds exactly to that of "Premier...
...Since De Valera's Fianna Fail is opposed in principle to accepting any ministry in the cabinet of a regime which they detest and hope to convert into a republic sooner or later observers thought last week that a coalition government headed by Tom Johnson, leader of the Labor Party, would have most chance to supplant President Cosgrave...