IRISH FREE STATE: Pensioners & Peers

If ever underdogs have yelped for champions, the Anglo-Irish who did not move to Britain after bloody 1920 have. The Free State has exacted a revenge for their loyalty to the Crown. These Tories get few jobs, no favors. Much of their property is gone.

Last week the die-hard survivors of the once proud Unionist Party were so emboldened by the political wrangling of the Irish as to propose a Loyalist party of their own "to assert the constitutional rights of all loyal Southern Irish subjects." Everybody knew that what they were really...

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