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Long, lean Eamon de Valera caught only snatches of troubled sleep last week. Although his home, ''Springville," is but ten motor minutes from Government House in Dublin, President de Valera had a bed lugged into his office. Toiling and arguing with his Cabinet Ministers, Ireland's "Messiah of Freedom'' faced with haggard mien an invisible and potent foe: the collective opposition of very polite British statesmen throughout the Empire. London hurled at Dublin last week a terrifying silence, a lack of further protest against the two major platform promises on which President de Valera was elected: abolition of the Free...
...Dublin office the President was trying to draft a white-hot Irish reply to the damp reminder he received fortnight ago from Secretary for the Dominions James Henry ("Jim") Thomas that His Majesty's Government "stands on" the Anglo-Irish Treaty of 1921 and stickles for the oath and the annuities...
...Dublin new President Eamon de Valera closeted himself to draft his reply to Great Britain's note, took no part in any of the 50 demonstrations staged in 50 Free State cities and towns by the Irish Republican Army?an illegal organization which under previous President Cosgrave was drastically repressed. To prevent clashes, the Regular Free State Army was ordered by President de Valera to remain in barracks...
Seemingly no portion of the Free State populace is hostile to the Republican Army, for its troops paraded through 50 cities and notably through Dublin without booing, riots or opposition. Only female Republican marchers were in uniform (fetching green with saffron scarves) but the men in mufti drilled smartly, proved that their secret military training in past years is no myth. Since most Free Staters firmly believe that the Republican Army has large secret stocks of arms, there was natural Irish disappointment when the army chose to parade gunless...
...arms. George ("Stay-Abed") Gilmore was sent to jail after his arrest in connection with the Cosgrave Government's discovery of one of the Army's secret munitions dumps. Last week Stay-Abed Gilmore and other members of the secret General Staff of the Irish Republican Army met near Dublin. Anxiously Belfast and London waited...