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Last week in a St. Patrick's Day radio speech to the U.S., Irishman Eamon de Valera explained why he had preferred no fight at all. "There were those," he said, "who . . . would have us believe that by our neutrality, we had lost American good will. . ." Eire's Prime Minister never believed...
...these pacific remarks, Mr. de Valera invited Americans to take his side in the fight for a united Ireland. "Abraham Lincoln fought a bitter civil war.... There are," suggested Dev, "few Americans who today would say that the ideals for which he fought were wrong...
...reconstruction were taken. In bombed and burned Manila the Rotary Club began its weekly Thursday luncheons. In the Manila Hotel socialites and dressmakers staged the capital's first fashion show and ball since 1941 against a background of charred greystone walls. The Islands' top dressmaker, Ramon Valera, turned out 24 gowns in two weeks (with material at $50 a yard), then collapsed from overwork. The first trickle of civilian goods had arrived from the U.S., tumbling black market prices 50%. And the Islands had shipped their first large load of hemp...
...Primate of All Ireland; after a brief illness; in Armagh, Northern Ireland. Scion of a lusty clan called "The Burnderries" (because in 1608 they rebelled against the British and burned London derry), the doughty Archbishop bitterly opposed the partition of Ireland. For his funeral Prime Minister Eamon de Valera said that he would go from Eire into Northern Ireland for the first time in 17 years...
Said Eamon de Valera: "We have no two heads of our state. There is one head, elected by the Irish people, and none other. In our external relations we use the head of the group of states with which we are associated for certain restricted purposes...