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Pennsylvania's Senator Guffey left the White House predicting that Pennsylvania's wealthy ex-Governor, liberal George Earle, would soon be appointed to a post abroad, would not say where. "Ireland," said everybody else. As a Governor's wife, Mrs. Earle (see cut) said of her husband, "His career is my whole life, but I want to stay in the background...
...refused all these years to surrender its arms, fights on with recklessly placed time bombs and other murderous weapons of savage conspirators. As soon as World War II broke, the I. R. A. again raised that most popular of all Gael slogans, "England's difficulty will be Ireland's opportunity," and the Irish war for a Republic was on again-with the usual solicitation of funds from wild Irish in the U. S. Things got really serious last month when 150 I. R. A. stalwarts stole 1,084,000 rounds of ammunition and numerous guns from the Phoenix...
...Government functioning - that one freely elected by the people!" cried Prime Minister de Valera in a fighting speech. In the lobbies of the Dail, meanwhile, it was whispered that I. R. A. plans 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...
...announced as 82-to-9 favoring de Valera's emergency bill. The Senate followed 62-to-7, and straight way de Valera sent out 5,000 Special Police armed with rifles to hunt down the I. R. A. All ports of Eire and the frontier with Northern Ireland were carefully manned and police with rifles took over what amounted to military guard of the State...
Most spectacular I. R. A. activity took place in Londonderry Jail in Northern Ireland. There, 45 imprisoned Irishmen closed their section of the prison and proceeded to set their bedding afire and smash the furniture. A crowd soon gathered outside, while the men inside sang Irish Republican songs, shouted Republican slogans and displayed Republican flags and placards out of the windows. One placard read: "England is the champion of freedom. Is this freedom...