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Voters who believed the platform promises of Eamon de Valera to reduce taxation could barely believe their eyes when they read the Budget Bill presented to the Dail in Dublin last week by embarrassed Finance Minister Sean MacEntee...
...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...
...dignity of George V, this Conservative definition of what the Oath of Allegiance really means was allowed by His Majesty's Government to stand. Soon the Commons threw out Independent Labor's anti-oath bill 294-10-4 and in London the issue was dead. But in Dublin last week it again kicked up its Irish heels...
...days later Dublin's "Messiah of Freedom," kept his election pledge to introduce a bill abolishing the oath of fealty to King George sworn by Free State Deputies and Senators (TIME, Feb. 29, et seq.). Before packed galleries Mr. de Valera presented to the Dail what will be known merely as The Constitution Bill, 1932. Since this was only its first reading (three being required), the President wasted no strength in championing his bill and his potent foe, ex-President William Thomas Cosgrave, was not even present, had gone to a funeral. Oratorical honors were therefore taken by Independent...
...Author. James Hanley, latest White Hope of the intelligentsia, was born in Dublin in 1901, went to sea at the same age as his hero. 13. In 1916 he joined the army, returning to the sea after the War. Onetime stoker, cook, butcher, clerk, post man. Author Hanley knows the proletariat of which he writes. His writing induces nausea in some readers?Hugh Walpole leading the hue & cry with a public shriek of horror?but causes in others a vehement banner-waving. Among the banner men are Thomas Edward Shaw (Col. Lawrence), Richard Aldington, John Cowper Powys. Laboriously punting upstream...