Word: ireland
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...publicly opposed British policy in Greece, voted against participation in the European Recovery Program. Fired from their jobs, though not from the party, were five of the cabinet's parliamentary private secretaries* who had voted against the government's bill to establish Britain's relationship with Ireland. Said one of the purged, ruefully: "If you vote against the government on a 'three line whip' [direct orders from party whips to vote] you are sticking your neck out ... I have no complaint...
...absence of snakes in Ireland," writes a young professor in the current Scientific American, "is the direct outcome of the Pleistocene geography of the British Isles...
...another morning talk, E. Estyn Evans of Belfast discussed Ireland as a part of Atlantic Europe...
Durwent S. Whittlesey, professor of Geography, lone permanent survivor of Harvard Geography, will head a morning session on "Ireland as a Western European Port...
Rabbi Isaac Halevi Herzog, who talks with a bit of a brogue picked up during 21 years in Ireland (eleven of them as Chief Rabbi), flew to the U.S. as Chief Rabbi of Israel, to help with the $250 million fund-raising campaign of the United Jewish Appeal...