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...were for a combined insurrection and war to overthrow the Governments of both Eire and Northern Ireland, sweep away the intervening fron tier and proclaim the Irish Republic - a move which Great Britain would certainly answer by sending an expeditionary force to Ireland as she did to crush the "Easter Rebellion" of 1916. Thus what members of the Dail faced last week may well have been a mortal threat to the whole structure of Anglo-Irish friendship-&-trade which has been slowly erected in the past decade...
...Germans had disobeyed their decision. "Orders from my Government," said the prize chief. Norway at once interned the prize crew, released City of Flint to her captain to go wherever he had a mind (see p. 16). He headed for neutral Bergen to wait for the political nor'easter to wane. Germany, in a great show of fury, protested to Norway. Norway coolly rejected the protest, with a review of the case which made it look very much as though Germany, wanting neither to risk the North Sea crossing nor to lose face by giving the ship back...
Nancy Brown at 69 is small, gentle, spry. Every year since 1934 she has held a religious service on Belle Isle (between Detroit and Windsor, Ont.) at sunrise on Easter Morning. At these services Nancy buries herself in the crowd, her face hidden in the fur collar of her coat. Few of her contributors know her real name, and she knows few of theirs...
...tower will be an octagonal limestone shaft, 90 feet tall, topped by a dome. In the base will be an organ. Nancy hopes to have it ready for her sunrise service next Easter Morning, will dedicate it formally to Peace on Father's Day. Opposite the site, in the lagoon, lies a small island. The Commissioner of Parks is going to move the island, so that Nancy's tower can be reflected full length...
...winter he changed tunes. With William Christian Bullitt, U. S. Ambassador to France, he became a prophet of doom, a skeleton at the feast. Again & again he croaked warnings that 1939 was a year of war. Certain it was that Kennedy was in Franklin Roosevelt's mind last Easter, when in bidding good-by to the citizens of Warm Springs, the President said: "I'll be back in the fall-if we don't have a war" (TIME, April...