IRISH FREE STATE: Two in One?

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Belfast bowed stiffly last week to Dublin. The Rt. Hon. Viscount Craigavon, Premier of Northern Ireland, revoked the decree which has barred from Northern Ireland that notorious person Eamon de Valera.

This bow to Dublin was necessary because in Dublin popular Mr. de Valera had just been elected and had taken office as "President" (i. e. Premier) of the ''Irish Free State'' (i. e. Southern Ireland). Fearfully Belfast Protestants heard that Dublin Catholics were roistering in wild Irish fashion every night, shouting that...

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