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...Eamon de Valera, "President of the Irish 'Republic'," resumed his old occupation, school teaching...
...significance of the famine, which William T. Cosgrove, President of the Free State Cabinet, called "much exaggerated," and which Eamon De Valera, Anglophobe Republican leader, declared was an "English press scare," is to be found in the fact that hungry men stir the most dangerous political discontent...
After the arrest at Londonderry of Eamonn de Valera, President of the Irish "Republic" (TIME, Nov. 3) the police removed him under strong guard to Belfast, where he was tried and condemned to one month's imprisonment, although the maximum term of incarceration prescribed is two years...
...Valera declined to recognize the court, referred to it as "the creature of a foreign Power"?the foreign Power being England. This made no difference, however, and to jail he went...
While under arrest, Mr. de Valera heard that he had been defeated as Republican candidate in the general elections. As a matter of fact, the 13 seats of Northern Ireland were all captured by the Conservative Party...