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...fethardism. Replied Galway's Bishop Michael Browne: "Non-Catholics do not protest against the crime of conspiring to steal the children of a Catholic father, but they try to make political capital when a Catholic people make a peaceful and moderate protest." Even the venerable Taoiseach Catholic, Eamon de Valera, leaped into the Donnybrook: fethardism, he declared, is "ill-conceived, ill-considered and futile...
Tolling Bells. In much of the world Macmillan's decision was greeted with hope and delight. "At least and at last, negotiations that can mean something are in prospect," declared London's News Chronicle. From Dublin, Irish Premier Eamon de Valera sent Makarios a history of Eire's fight for independence, accompanied by a note describing the book as a gift "from one who understands and sympathizes." In Cyprus itself church bells tolled triumphantly, spelling out "Makarios" in an old Greek ringing code, and as the news spread from balcony to balcony, crowds poured into the streets...
...smoky orange light of flaming tar barrels, voters in County Clare sang and danced at the crossroads one night last week. They were celebrating the return to power, in Ireland's first general elections since 1954, of their own 74-year-old Eamon de Valera, whose Fianna Fail (Men of Destiny) Party scored a clear-cut victory by taking 78 of the Irish Dail's 147 seats...
DUBLIN, Ireland, March 7--Eamon de Valera regained control of Parliament tonight in a smashing political comeback for the 74-year-old New York-born Irish patriot...
...Eamon de Valera (Sun. 3 p.m., NBC). Interview with Ireland's first President...