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...Opposition was not even in Ireland, had nothing to do with the Government's defeat, was in fact in Chicago. Chances were good that before he could return Mr. Cosgrave would again be "President."' Chicago reporters found the leader of the Opposition, Mr. Eamon de Valera, throwing things into suitcases. He has never ceased to call himself "President of the Irish Republic" but might as well claim to be the "Man in the Moon." Said he as he packed: "Should I head the next Irish Government, my principal concerns will be the country's independence, the substitution...
...Chicago, Mr. de Valera has been soliciting Irish money to start one more newspaper in support of his cause: freedom, legal Irishification of Ireland, statehood. "Mr. de Valera cannot be elected President," said Mr. Cosgrave confidently last week, "with the Dail as it is at present constituted...
...point of agreement between President Cosgrave of Ireland and his bitter opponent De Valera, leader of the Sinn Fein, has been a common desire to see Gaelic culture and the Gaelic language predominant in the newly autonomous state. In Wales, recently a similar movement has gained official recognition; and Welsh, which is still the only language of some hundred thousand people, has become the medium of instruction in the majority of the public schools. But this revivefication of language and culture is but a phase of the nationalistic movement that is sweeping the world. In Russia, in Italy, in China...
...TIME, Jan. 16). Upon landing Prince Louis effaced himself completely beneath an incognito and succeeded in vanishing from the cognizance of the press. President Cosgrave was scheduled to tour the Midland and Eastern States, explaining his government to Irish-Americans, and counteracting the propaganda of famed obstreperous Eamon De Valera, now in the U. S. attempting to raise campaign funds wherewith to disrupt Mr. Cosgrave's majority in the Free State Parliament...
Although the Cosgrave Government is now solidly in power it is menaced by the stubborn faction of famed Eamon de Valera. He collected campaign funds of $150,000 for the last Irish Free State election (TIME, Oct. 24), raising $5,000 in Ireland and $145.000 in the U. S. and Australia. Mr. de Valera is now in the U. S., again soliciting campaign funds; and it is to checkmate him that President Cosgrave comes to the U. S.?however loudly he may protest that his mission is "non-political...