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...Walter Richard Nugent, Irish Senator and Chairman of the Great Southern Railways of Ireland, announced at a stockholders meeting last week that unless President de Valera called off his tariff war with Britain, the fall in freight loadings would force the Great Southern to abandon all service and return its territory to the pony and the jaunting car. He was particularly bitter against the $1 a ton tax on British coal. The fire-boxes of his locomotives are adjusted for Brit ish coal only...
...reprisal the de Valera government secretly recalled hundreds, of their more violent followers exiled to Canada and the U. S. by the Cosgrave government. At Saint John, New Brunswick reporters found one Vincent Boyle who admitted that he had received $100 and passage back to Ireland from the present Minister for Defense, Frank Aiken, that he was on his way to New York to join 700 more returning to Ireland...
...bookkeepers, adding machine manufacturers and Anglophobes. In 1926, four years after the establishment of the Irish Free State, the entire Irish dollar question was gone into exhaustively by a commission headed by Economist Dr. Henry Parker Willis of New York who decided against it, pointed out the dangers to Ireland of a currency system divorced from that of her nearest and biggest customer, Great Britain...
Without division the sober Senators of the Irish Free State passed a resolution last week asking thin-necked President Eamon de Valera. of whom they do not approve, to negotiate with Great Britain to settle Ireland's most urgent problem immediately: Whether the Free State is to cease remitting annuities to the British Government for estates of British and Irish landlords divided and sold on the installment plan to Irish tenants. The Senators might as well have saved their breath. President de Valera pushed a ?2,000,000 emergency appropriation through the Dail for the establishment of new industries...
...days after this scene Premier Ramsay MacDonald boarded a seaplane at Lossiemouth and flew St. George's Channel to the Marquess of Londonderry's house at Mount Stewart. County Down, Northern Ireland. In Ireland observers leaped to the conclusion that he was there to hold a series of secret meetings with de Valera representatives on the annuities problem. Some added an additional detail: Scot MacDonald's trip to Ireland was at the request of delegates to the Ottawa conference (see p. 12) who are restless for an early solution. All these stories Scot MacDonald went to great...