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Long, lean Eamon de Valera caught only snatches of troubled sleep last week. Although his home, ''Springville," is but ten motor minutes from Government House in Dublin, President de Valera had a bed lugged into his office. Toiling and arguing with his Cabinet Ministers, Ireland's "Messiah of Freedom'' faced with haggard mien an invisible and potent foe: the collective opposition of very polite British statesmen throughout the Empire. London hurled at Dublin last week a terrifying silence, a lack of further protest against the two major platform promises on which President de Valera was elected: abolition of the Free...
Before sitting down to write, Mr. de Valera had shouted to a Dublin throng, "Britain cannot frighten us!" These words were received with such enthusiasm that the President was swept in a friendly Irish way by the crowd through a picket fence...
...London is significantly close to Ottawa. English Conservatives see eye to eye with Conservative Canadian Premier Bennett, rich lawyer. Last week it was Premier Bennett who set a new Empire precedent by issuing a Canadian White Paper on the Irish Free State. Cautious, lawyerish, it suggested that Mr. de Valera might find, after abolishing the Oath to the King in Dublin, that by this act he had cut loose the Irish Free State from enjoying Empire privileges?including the preferential duties which States within the Empire grant to each other's goods. Can an Oath be so important...
...Bennett's broad hint, leading British newsorgans soon began to say that the Oath is the keystone of Empire and that Canada would evidently not invite the Irish Free State to the Imperial Economic Conference, scheduled at Ottawa in June; with elaborate politeness Premier Bennett warned President de Valera that "only by her own action could the Irish Free State become ineligible to send representatives to the Conference...
After Canada's Bennett, New Zealand's Forbes next politely belabored President de Valera with an official declaration of "the hope of His Majesty's Government in New Zealand that His Majesty's Government in the Irish Free State will not feel obliged to pursue any course that might jeopardize the Free State's continued association with the British Commonwealth? an association which the Government and people of New Zealand value very highly...