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THE "CHINA MAIL,” WEDNESDAY MARCH 20, "1957. ""
"Dev"-rides
EAMON DE VALERA — an Irish Institution
Shy
again
in Dublin
by
VALERA is an institution rather
Dthan a man:
At 74, his body must
struggle to keep up with his mind and his eyesight has faded.
Gaunt and austere he tramps through the countryside in a 'black coat, almost black tie, a black hat and a stiff gleaming white collar. He looks like an apparition from the long dead past..
Sometimes, too, he talks like one. He lectures the farmers in gentle but firm tones, reminding them of the great dream that was to be Ireland, urging that it is the things of the spirit that matter. It was for the spirit that he stood at the barricades in the uprising that became a massacre in 1916,
Les Armour
Scotsmen's
Courting Club
many teenagers
in bothered any more with
Dundee, Scotland, want noisy mass of teenagers. learn about
und Hex
"But they need to be told marriage that a "courting about sex." couples" club
being is formed in the city. Behind the plan is Mrs Mhairi Lane,
housewife who
13
18
the
organising secretary of girls and mixed clubs in Dundee area.
Mrs Lane talked about the shy courting couples of Dundee. A questionnaire sent round her
He believed then and he believes now----that given the things of the spirit, the rest will
take care of itself,
He wanted the Irish to regain their self-respect, their courage -and their language. It was for
fought that he
the
theso British,
Other men hove sometimes Lost faith. Some wonder whether the improvement of the
and for 19 of those years he has served as Prime Minister,
All this is strange. For de Valera is not any man's idea of a politician, let alone an Irish- man's. He is not even, by ortin- wry reckoning, an Irishman.
End
EIRE- ROMANCE AND REALITY
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In 1921, terms for a seille- ment were agreed upon and the Irish Free State began ite existence within the Common- wealth. De Valera was having none of it however. He demand ed absolute independence with
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He came back landed with Ulster. The separation of the six and the year in which it was money for the cause. He had "non-Irish" counties assisted his rudely thrust aside by all the pcrved his apprenticeship and campaign for the Irish language great powers. He believed that was now, at list, to be trusted and that, to him, has always the League had been betrayed and followed.
come at the top of the list of on all sides and that the pariles objectives.
to the dispute must reap the consequences. Nor has he always seen Brl- tain as the only possible tyrant. In retrospect, do Valera's neutralism must seem Quixotle He has more than once been or merely opportunist. The dif at odds with the Church-ference between good and evil though he himself is a devout can hardly ever have been drawn more clearly on the pages With calculated purpose,
of history and no Irishman cạn appointed a Protestant, Dr Hyde, really have doubted where evil to be the first President when Eire became a republic in 1937 and left the Commonwealth. And he has regularly appointed a proportion of Protestants Jdgeships and in the higher ramios of the Civil Service.
no strings.
His father was a Spaniard and he was born in New York on Manhatten Island. His mother was Irish and she brought him to Ireland at the age of two after the death of his father,
He was a strious, intent, de-
As a result he was arrested Lormined youth, and he labour- ed steadily
Wild
by Free State troops and spent regular distinction through the
11 months more in guol. Roman Catholic Schools and the Nation-
By the time he emerged, the al University of Ireland. In the settlement had become clearer end, he stayed at the National and Ireland was beginning to University
an independent in shape itself as lecturer
For five years from country. mathematics,
1927 to 1932, he led the Opposi tion in the Free State parlia- ment.
а
Through his scholar's interest in the Irish language he became Interested in the nationalist movement and in the Sinn Fein curious- organisation (founded
Д
ly, by man with the good Welsh name of Arthur Grimthe spirit can really ettre chronic in 1905). of unemployment and stop con- He joined the underground business tinuing mass emigration. ..army. But he wER
never thoroughly trusted by its lend- guldance
scholarly, too unemotional.
budgeting and
that
Bort
thing but the
main
on
will be discussiong led by marrjage councillors,"
SCX
help
The club will aim to young couples between 18 and 22he ago group of early marriages which come unstuck
soonest."
Sald Mrg Lant; "One of the
PRIME MINISTER
Roman Cathoile.
he
to
LBY,
LAST CHANCE
Postwar Iroland has twico shown a marked distaste for tho polities of eternity and twice de At the time of the Abyssinian Valera has been out of office. crisis he insisted on sanctions against Italy, against the strong Now it has shown a distaste opposition the Church, and hê for the confusions of an ineffec- demanded non-interference in live coalition. the Spanish Civil War over even stronger. opposition
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the
The government has changed because the Irish are tired of new unemployment, bad housing, bad
In 1932, he became Prime Miniator. The battle had been won. He negotiated, successively, The war overtook the abolition of the British republic within a year of the plumbing, backward agriculture Governor-General, the oath of anal negotiations with Britain and unhelpful political chatter.
De Valera is patient. He is a crs. He was too detached, too egiance to the King, and the oret de Valera promptly declared
mathematician by profession and
the mathematician's world is the world of eternity and inanity, He can wait, Ireland will wins
FIANNA FAIL
clubs recently showed that the subjects which interested the youngsters most of all were sex education and marriage and boys in my club got married ation of the voters
A surprisingly steady propor family relations. Yet, when month ago just after his 17th
has always the local marriage council birthday. There's another 17-greed with him. The "courting club" will started a course this year for year-old wedding coming of be the first of its kind in engaged couples, only one boy soon, Scotland. Saya Mrs Lane; and girl turned up.
Al
that remained
The Old Man is being given a remaining British treaty rights Ireland neutral. The decision, over Irish ports.
either way, was bound to split new chance. Unless he really is under the country-and badly.
an institution and not just n In the uprising of 1916 he British rule was Ulster-the
man, this must be his Inst was appointed Commandant of a perenrdal thorn, festering con- But de Valera took it in the chance. detachment. His detachment was
And this time he must pro- and it binuously in the minds of the Hight of his own principles. He the last to surrender
extremists who, even now, had been President of the As- duce the things of the stomach disposed of more British troops threaten always to upset the sembly of the League of as well as the things of the than any other.
of the Republic.
Nations in 1838-the last year, spirit, or be repudiated again, Yet de Valera was not always es it turned out, in which the It is not certain that he can
unhappy about League was more than a fiction do it. desperately
When it was over, de Valèra was the senior surviving officer. He was also under sentence His party, Fianna Fail, has of death. always been the largest single That was commuted
to life party in the Dail even though a foprisonment and the Imprison- orc just coalition of "splinters"
the general amnesty of 1917. formed ment Insted only a year untu
"Many youngsters "The new club will answer Mrs Lane, who is a marriage not fitted for marriage at that the government from 1948 until the questions of older boys guidance councillor, said: "It age.
and girls who have reached the stage of 'going steady.
"They tend to drift nway
Two years later he was back in gool. The gaol, however, was not noted for its efficiency and 23 he managed not only to escape
But 80 long us they 1951 and again from 1951 until serm that the couples are put persist in getting married, we this month. or by the seeming formality of want to try to help them make
He has scen
10 Irish elec- the council courses so we're a go of it."
tions come and go in the going to make this new club an informal affair.
from their own youth clubs "We'll give talks on home
because they
can't
be decorating, running repairs,
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ERIC SEWELL years since the more or less but to get to America where he
Anal settlement with
Britain, was given a hero's welcome.
GHANA BEGINS TO FACE
HER FREEDOM
"Senyo Antor...
T
TROUBLES
God Is Good.”
·HERE is not much to laugh about in Ho Hoo today. Ghana troops crash about in armoured cars. The town is fenced by roadblocks. Outside in the vil- lages people are afraid. Yet one man could steady their hearts and set their feet to dance again.
The man is Mr Senyo (which means "God is Good") Antor, a Methodist schoolteacher who is leader of the Togoland Congress.
A
government has
statements about the
John Redfern
order
A
NATHANIEL GUBBINS
MIND-READING fton? Is the old rolne bluffing camera, invented by an or is there a spy in the office N.C.O. of the RAF, can daughter, Mr B.7"
What do you think of my photograph
"I think, air, she's the love
have ever met."
secret your
thoughts and record them best and most intelligent girl I
to be studied at leisure.
says Mr Ai'..
You
Mrs Jordan had been train» Ing for eight weeks. But as she was unable to maintain her record Ume of 1 min. 14.0 sec. she withdrew be. cause, like a cricketer out of form, she did not want to let the side down.
The committéo diamond-
at Liberai wrote the Rev. R. Collins of For Olney asking "t it would be
your honest opinion Well played, maʼam
that
"No, you don't, Mr B. After which it won't be long before our true opinions think she's a hideous, ungainly,
Moreover, there is some argu- moron ment about the pancake mistaken about others will be revealed flat-footed, tone-deaf hunters' camps for training instantly, giving the lie to the gods to concerts because she wing track as there have been fancies herself as an intellectual, interminable arguments about places of a secret army. the spoken word and becom-
Antor discounts government ing a terror to all datterers But you are quite willing. Le cricket pitches, rends
her and
Inherit my finishing stretch at Liberal has secret and sycophants.
To Bay
say nothing of been changed because the girls camps, True, he is on record So we are now taking you sponging on me in my vulgar were trampling on the flower with appeals for order. But he also says: "We are Sghting over to a City office of the hour in Surrey,”
beds outside the church, against the constitution." In his future,
"Anything else, sir?" Mr A, the managing director, "Yes, Mr B. Iriend's house, he says,
have I could
One noticeable difference bes "By
is discussing a business develop forgiven you bringing in the army the Accra ment scheme with Mr B, who secretly thought that my wife is future rain will not stop play in if you had not tween the two games is that, in I drove 250 miles from Acers FROM
has risen from office-boy to the a pampered hypochondriac and the pancake race. on the trail of Antor, through
position of company secretary half mad alcoholic who looks steaming villages where the old
by the easy methods of the like an overdressed, ones lay like dead men in the
"yes" man. Mr B is not aware studded washerwoman shade of favoured trees, past
of the thought-rending machine that you are fired, Mr B." the little shops with names like
under Mr A's desk.
legal for us to carry" umbrellam "Slow but Bure" and "Time will
Well, dozen Tell." I had half
HO HOE, TOGOLAND
Mr B
in the event of rain.” narrow escapes from collision
"what ##
It might be noted køre with the brutally-driven country Ghana
of my new idea?! constitution, accepted government has declared war on
no proper cricketer refers to buses-lucks crammed
"I think it's terriße, sir. with both
"rules." by Prime Minister Southern Togoland,"
Ho rofers to "cricket passengers and plastered with Nkrumah and the parliamentary
has even more vision than all
laws." Therefore Whilo
the village elders in your other brilliant ideas which "Remember your six feet" (the opposition to which Autor be- places near Ho Hoe confabulate have put heart of Worth ONLY the eagle eye of your the word "legal" is in the right slogans "Let me go home," longs, rules that out,
apprehensively and the young
Uncle Nat has noticed a tradition grave? Could I forget on theso During Independence Week men make mighty cudgela_all|
petitor
you don't by any chance growing similarity of cricket consent, but it would be dim- roads?), "Save me, on God,” there were serious incidents in guns have to be surrendered-think my idea is punk and that to the annual pancake race cult to imagine the M.CC glv-
Eventually I traced Antor to two towns. Five persons were Antor snarls: the house of one of his friends. killed, 23 wounded and 160
a bumbling old fool, do between 12 women of Olney, ing Peter May permission “Onco his gun has been hand- I'm Because of the great heat ho arrested.
Bucks, Eng., and 12 women carry umbrellas on a ramy day. | you, were ed in a man, has no defence, "Me, sir? Really, sir" sat nalcod to the waist, his invaded, by groups of strangers This fight is not a Congress
of Liberal, Kansas, US. African robe bunched round his who deployed in the bush when affair. Vis national and it
It legs like Bkirt bulging engaged by the police and the army stays here it will be make
For instance, it is reported like right young briefcase wedged between his, showed steadiness under aro.
But then pancake racing that "the withdrawal of Mis not yet controlled by unbending civil war."
yourhought sandalled feet. We talked,
was there also - British - officials consider tha
Nina Jordan, last year's winner Independence
for America, has considerably there will be pancake laws, with Antor, a lean 43 years, cam- "celebrated" by telephone line arrival of the army has steadied
autocracy, Perhaps one day paigned against the Joining" of sabotage, by arson and road ob- the situation, but
enfanced England's, chanote Some aro
umpires deciding it a pancake the Trust Territory of British structions. Fortunately, Ghana concerned at the orgirnisation. you into a secret. I have
victory
caught at the bottom of a pan Togoland to the new state soldiers had already been moved the disciplina shown by, the machine here which records
ls out, and if a girl shooping a Ghana. A piobisdie fast in to reinforce the police one rool clashes with the polloo, your thoughts. At this moment
frying pan and falling over it la your selfied that ** By 93,000 to company. here, two at other. They thinức: thing, máy Se pou are thinking. I am ugly. This is rather lice saying that Lb.p., or leg before gang 67,000 the territory chose to go places. Today, there is coristant worse before they are better overweight, upid, vain, and the withdrawal of Johnny Your Uncle can only look In with Nkrumah,cumsh patrolling and, dally, swaebi' to Foatmates For the record, Ho pompous. You are very, red in Wardle, through injury, from, forward to pancake reció come
But Antor carries --on- a locale, young men believed to Hoë la Goti pronounced the way the, fuck, Mr B.**.
Engleodie Fast Teet fecrar comentarios by Jim Swanton and militonit agitation for a regional be'training in isolated/camper you think,
aliceably entranced South John Arlotte "It sounds in any "Am L, siz??!!! government in Bouthern Tow / Ho 'hol This steiktu, Miri, African's mouth
11 Hood Yosi are also thinking, how Africa" chanow of aquarisig: the goland, although the new Antór- am distinctly funny!
can, Esariggle, out of this shiaw #tibber, fr
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