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...Dublin sorely harassed President de Valera, made uneasy by the unexpected pressure of men far away on opposite sides of the earth, put aside his first defiant draft reply to Mother Britain, called in leading Irish lawyers, anxiously fussed over their suggested drafts and redrafts...
...Damn your concessions to England!" headlined Dublin's Republican An Phoblacht before Mr. de Valera had done or conceded anything. "The Anglo-Irish Treaty, lock, stock & barrel must go! Ireland wants no connection with England. The Imperial link must be severed...
President de Valera, only a fortnight earlier, had himself summed up "the aims of the new Government" thus...
...Almost the only encouragement President de Valera received last week came from that most obstreperous State in all the Empire, the State of New South Wales in the Dominion of Australia, the "repudiating" State of Labor Premier John Thomas Lang (TIME, April 6, 1931). In Sydney irrepressible Laborites assembled, adopted and sent to Mr. de Valera a most welcome resolution...
...Irelands. Pushed by British pressure out of the picture last week was Eamon de Valera's hope and plan that on becoming President he could negotiate for a union of the two Irelands, North & South, Protestant and Catholic...