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Voters who believed the platform promises of Eamon de Valera to reduce taxation could barely believe their eyes when they read the Budget Bill presented to the Dail in Dublin last week by embarrassed Finance Minister Sean MacEntee...
Intent on driving out of the Irish Free State the oath of allegiance to King George, President Eamon de Valera was heartened last week by news that in London the House of Commons was squabbling over a bill to abolish its own Oath of Allegiance to His Majesty...
Fortnight ago President de Valera's oath-abolition bill slid through first reading in the Free State Dail unopposed. Last week its second reading opened with a striking boast by Tipperary's rip-roaring Deputy Dan Breen (TIME...
Thus President de Valera is clearly moving with extreme moderation, considering the existence in the Free State of a strong 100%-republican faction whose demand is "Down with the King...
President de Valera, though he would "welcome expulsion," had made no move up to last week toward attempting to cut the Free State free. After his bill had passed he smilingly said: "The Irish Free State is by far the best customer* Great Britain has. We buy more goods from her than she buys from us. Therefore we have no reason to think that there is any danger of economic war. Last year the Free State was, with the exception of South Africa, the only† important customer of Great Britain with whom that country had a favorable balance...