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Once Eamon de Valera openly raised in London the issue of whether Northern Ireland should be merged with his Eire (TIME, Jan. 31), it was obvious that Prime Minister Viscount Craigavon of Northern Ireland could win an election on that issue without half trying. He promptly called an election, campaigned with the slogan "Don't Be Eirated!" and won last week, increasing his Parliamentary following to 80%. Viscount Craigavon has already been Prime Minister for 17 consecutive years, is now safely in for five more...
...Philadelphia, the Right Honorable Viscount Leverhulme, head of Lever Bros. Ltd. (Soap) arrived at the 30th Street Railroad Station. President of the International Committee of Scientific Management, he was vexed to discover that he had brought his wife and baggage, had forgotten his railroad tickets. Efficiently he boarded his train, bought two more tickets...
...added that unity of Ireland is "the essential foundation for the establishment of real understanding and friendship between the two peoples of Britain and Eire." He proposed an all-Ireland parliament, full representation therein for Ulster, and guarantees protecting Protestant minorities. It was a shrewd proposal, for Prime Minister Viscount Craigavon's treatment of the Ulster Catholics has a none too pleasant odor for English nostrils. Having scored in this fashion, Statesman de Valera agreed with Mr. Chamberlain to let the subject drop...
...religious rather than political lines and Ulster is two-thirds Protestant, one-third Catholic, the result of an election when Mr. de Valera is clamoring for a united Ireland is almost a foregone conclusion: In rebuffing de Valera's proposal, Ulster would return to office for another term Viscount Craigavon, Prime Minister for the last 17 years...
London's American Chamber of Commerce heard William Hulme Lever Viscount Leverhulme, governor of world-spraddling Lever Brothers, Ltd. (Lux, Lifebuoy Soap), tell about the perplexity of efficiency experts over a certain laborer, the only worker in a factory to pull, not push, his wheelbarrow. Asked why, the laborer said: "Well, guv'nor, hi 'ates the ight of the bloomin' thing...