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...living only last November in New York City (where Eamon de Valera was born). American money in a grand old Irish way makes Irish history, has made it for 90 years. But Tipperary elected Dan Breen last week just because he is such a rip-roaring ould bouchal. Twenty actual times the British have put actual bullets into him. On Dan's head His Majesty's Government once had a price of ?10,000 ($48.600 then) for his capture...
...Valera Platform. The British public assumed last week that Mr. de Valera would win, if he won the election, a number of seats only sufficient to make him President (premier) in coalition with the Irish Labor Party. This, London thought, would "tie de Valera's hands...
...count, with twelve seats still in doubt, gave Mr. de Valera 66 seats compared to President Cosgrave's 50 (with 24 Laborites and Independents also elected). This meant that a sworn enemy of George V would soon be the Irish President...
Promptly prospective President de Valera said "The oath of allegiance to King George is obligated by Article XVII of the [Irish Free State] Constitution. We propose to remove that article." Said President Cosgrave, "I hope the new Government will be an honorable one and that if the oath of allegiance to King George is done away with it will be by negotiations." Thus there seemed small doubt last week that King George, the fly in Irish freedom, will be swatted...
...Eamon de Valera used to teach mathematics. Teacherish in appearance, called "impractical" by his enemies, he is a Messiah of Freedom. In 1916 he was sentenced to Death for commanding insurgents against King George, but his sentence was commuted to penal servitude for life, and the General Amnesty of 1917 made him free. Elected to a seat in the London Parliament, he refused to sit, was "elected" by his Irish friends "President" of the "Irish Republic" (illegal) and as such rejected the Treaty of 1921 which, nevertheless, set up the Irish Free State. Later, Mr. de Valera resigned as "President...