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Behind A Foreign Minister's Desk
PALE. restless face, an
energetic, ruthless mind, by
and two inquisitive, al DAVID ways wide-open, sharply blue
eyes, are behind the desk of the TEMPLE Minister for External Affairs of Eire.
Sean MacBride is behind that desk In iveagh House The great uppër drawing-room of the mansion St Stephen's Green is too gl and too grand; it seems too loaded with rich jornument for this stin figure.
I was told he had killers' eyes. That was how it seemed the minute I sat down to talk with Ireland's first "Foreign Mister. (For Mir do Valera, the Prime Minister, had outfi ne left power, kept "Foreign Affairs in his own pocket),
What did I want to know from this man? Interviewing Foreign Minister is usually, to a jušníka. a maller of dry questions and answers. I come in as a guarn, Has and want lo know what is the attitude of "his government" to this problem or that
But speaking to Sean MacBilde
something quile different. wanted to see the man in action
in
He was
was
1
ROBERTS
part
new Government, It is calling Uself the "Inter-Party" Goverment be- enuse includes everything from Left to Right except de Valern, is fanning the flames of patriotism that burn against the government nt the crown.
kold.
north under the British
So Sean MacBride threw all his rbetorical wit into the arguments. "We stand on the principle of self- determination and democracy?" he How often I bave heard that appeal to the word democracy justify a cause, "Take vote In all Ireland," he said, "and you will only find two countles
who will young vote against n United Ireland."
So Mr Costello, the first Irish politician chosen for a leading post- tion, (not beenuse he had in the revolution), had to have Maelride. He sent him off to the Ministry of External Affairs with the hope that that job would damp down the energies of the man from the IRA.
to
"Five counties!" I contradicted. "And then try democracy in Ulster Take n vote of what they want there and you will get a different answer."
SEAN MACBRIDE, Foreign Minister of Eiro
can make the government in London do anything.
Ireland has no Foreign policy. She has neutrality, she has non- Intervention; In the second war sho
"No, the government in London was animated by an ardent desire This had ceased being an Interview can be influenced by goodwill, by to see the allies win, and an equally and had become a sparring match. friendship, having ita conselence ardent desire to keep to the forms "But then", said Scan MacBride, touched, and by being persuaded of neutrality and not show anyone "how would you like it if we in that a contented United Ireland is that they could be pro-British. Dublin decided to like vate In In its best interest."
the counties ut to be governed by
whether Sean Wales But it is not succeeding. MacBride la stirring up the Minis- Wales wanted
(I begged to differ that Northern
"content" under Dublin's hond-but let that pass).
Strange Statement That was a strange statement for
an
try of External Affairs of Ireland. London, and we found they didn't Ireland would be The island has stepped into promi- Rence since it has become one of the leading defence centres "Western Union". There is a strong
in the United States, born feeling
of which they are much feeling aware in Ireland, that the fat land tine painted green would make
spot for aerodromes,,
1
I knew is record.
1004. He lived his youn: life in a constant bloothirsty, often gun- -hand fight for his own concepton
Ireland. a national patriotic was a fight against the Eugas. His father was executed when he was
His mother was the cele (welve.
Gonic, ornieri Maud
the Pasionaria" of the Trista National Revolution.
Arrested At 13
THEN he was thirteen he was ar-
Wrested that was in 1917. 33 1929
de was an "officer in a battalion of the Dublin Brigade of the IR the Irish Republican Army.
MI
Neutrality Policy
in
rashness.
C.V.R. Thompson Prejudice poll
Ishamo
New York.
N the hope that they will their follow. Americans, the anti-Defamation Lenguo, a Jewish organisation, is polling America to find out how much anti-Semitism thore
is.
At present the league's pollsters are concentrating upon the Al eitles. like, Denver, Colorado, (pop, 287,801).
They discovered that about half of Denver's adults were "modérate-
anti-Semitic. A quarter wax free of prejudice..
that They, also discovered
the more educated a man is the less lik prejudice. that young people Are Less anti-Semitic than
old, women less than men, and high- salaried groups less than the poor.
nf
מ
JUSTICES THE NINE
America's highest court have promised that they would give Judgment soon to establish how binding is A "quickle divorce" granted by Reno and similar ency
lvorce towns,
IN NEW YORK'S men shops they' I have
begun selling moth- proof sult. Each customer gets guarantee with his bill that if maths ever domage his sult he will get a
new one.
A
FTER A LONG STUDY
ex-officer of the Republlean THE argument went on, back and Army. This fighter has cooled from
forth. The Foreign Minister had
The argument between left his desk. Here was an Irishman Dublin and London, this reporter Arguing his Passionate conviction.
would estimate, in now a plece of Up and down the long drawing room, shadow-boxing polities.
woul
It satisfies where the proprietors of Guinness's
with Irish to shadow-box famous Irish beer used to entertain, London. On the other hand it suits we strode in friendly Anglo-Irish 201
the Ministry of External Affairs of argument.
drinks fertilisers from Ireland to receive
have them paid for
the
Ile ranged over the world to fine America and examples of "partition." Pakistan from London's dollar pool--in the and Palestine were drawn in. The end. cager defender of the I. R. A. drew Se Sean MacBride has drawn in
down
Ho his horns.
hayricks, that you and all the chatm of an Irish wit.
COI asked Sean MacBride whether oral his country would join the West-
ern Union alliance. "No, neutrality is our polley." When a war comes, though, Ireland cannot expect to back, though, from what I would
was persuading avoid destruction.
have expected to be his favourite me that my government would sten We talked about Berlin. "That argument--that it is only by being to reason-his brand of Irish reason, Is an issue you are glad to be out troublesome, stirring up revolt, and spoken with sweet reasonableness
to the Foren burning of", I surmised Minister. "We are out of it, yes, In one sense," said the cynle behind the Dublin desk, "but we are i 11 to this extent. that what 2011 in Londen, and they in Amerien, de. cide, controls our very existence."
Little old Ireland's life depends And Sean Mac- on the big powers. Bride has no confidence in London If you could find or Washington. me mati In the British Foreign Office who could tell me consistently Russia is in Germany, then 1 would
what the policy and clearly white the Irish today talk of a new have more confidence in your ability Anglo-Irish friendship and the to escape the consequences of this
who Berlin erisis." External Affairs,
This record against the English in Dublin. I was is not forgotten surprised to see how much turning ck to the past there still is: Fræ
Phoenix Pork, a few instance, la aundred yards from the President's was erected official residence there only a few years ago, during the war,
J. Statue
JUNI
Housing,
tu
"executed by the English, May
1916.
8. There it stands in the parc
Minister for
of
While investors in Britain have been making fortunes on Road Transport shares, the Stock
· Exchange has been making history-in-reversi The read boom comes Just 100 years after the rali-
of the problem, Dr. Howard Haggard. a Yale chemist, announced there is no basis for the belief that is harmful to mix drinks. "Except." he added, "that it takes at least two drinks to make a mixture, and two obviously contain more alcohol than one."
THA
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FABULOUS Americon woman golfer Babe Didrikson has been toppled from her supre macy. Another Texas girl Mins Polly Riley, beat her declively in the Texas Open--by 10 and 0 in a 30-hole game.
way share panie of 1848 which brought_prices toppline and ruined the man who ruled 'a third of Meifala's reliways, Here is the story of George Hudson,
The draper's
who boy
became...
THE RAILWAY KING
life of George Hudson
orthodox, his
accounts
wellnigh * shareholder
Incomprehensible, Tis a gift from history which By PHILIP WHITAKER who had the temerily to sugifest the
talks of this new ucal with England him the man in the British the film writers have
I had to admit that I could not Is this Sean MacBride, who spen
year in prison from 1922 to 1923, Foreign Oflce" to explain Russian
Still, that was not admit-countably overlooked. then eseup and could not show his policy.
ing that nobody could help him face for several years.
Eventually Sean MacBride, the man with the gun, "settled down" and made himself a career in the law.
He was not called to the Irian Bar until 1937. Yet within a few years ne had made a leading reputation toriumself, as a defender of ine nnn_of_the_IRA,
Restless Mind
unac-
was modest; Rennie, their engineer,
by
employment of outside accountants was crushed. Were not the directors trusted? "I have no statistics in my rall
rallway."
methods,
advised. It should be worked
Yet, as long as he produced 10 horses, not stcum.
Then a chance percent dividends his railway-mad meeting with George Stephenson subjce.s shut their eyes to his widened Hudson's horizon.
Socially he was Honised, His The two became friends for life. house one of the pair of man- Stephenson had the vision; Iluduon side Park-wan crowded with the flanking the Albert Gate to the ambition, drive and ruthless Hyde
Tho
It is just a century ago that Hud- son's iron kingdom was topptiņg to disaster: it was in September 1848 shook HAD the impression of Sean Mac- that the panle began which
£78,000,000 off the value of British Bride that I came to his office to railway shares and brought down gain. I could see the restless mind the most spectacular of Victorian at work. I could
the see how
tycoons. business of government, the tele. PRORC and the inter-communica- There is a story here, und Mr Rank tian apparatus on the "desk," "Irritated" is welcome" to it. What do the nim energy to turn the vision into bridges gre Duke of Wellington was his "Why did you refuse aid from the
this Foreign Minister every Marshall
time writers want? A poor-boy-to-riches and tunnels, ralls and engines, and United States under the
repald to link them in time into a network friend and gracefully we were interrupted. could ste romance? Hudson was a farmer's Plan?" It was an awkward question.
foreshadowing the that he
great railway good turn by calling on Hudson's thought the "cattle and boy who controlled before he was amalgamations of this century.
daughter at her school to save the MacBride wants the guouwill of re
CKES"
agreement on his desk was 50 a. third of Britain's railway United States, but he does not wan
child from ostracism, because of her just 4 material triviauty.
lowly origin, The appearance of ingratitude. "That is not quite right," he said.
For him personally, politics is a matter of emotions and patriotism, Spectacle? Hudson, Lord Mayor not dollars and imports. Here was of York.
Rave the city the most ERP For Eire
He was a Tory and a protection- gunman turned journalist turned splendid ball it had known; he flood- TN 1830 the York and North ist. When he beat a Cobden Anti- politician. The Journalist in him lit York's Guildhall with gas Jets Midland Railway was opened. Corn Law Lenguer a
carry and Lord hired a special train to There were: Immense news of the victory to
4
gum in dollar-using countrcs,
MacBride, the man who still
question:
Partition Issue
ITAVING reached that brick wall 1
mileage,
of the
5-HOUR MEAL
WDS
Sunderland made him its
MP..
newspaper
the. London.
THE CRASH
EVENTUALLY we unravelled what
had happened to ERP for Ireland. talked to me freely. But the poll- they made him director of the gas Hudson was chairman,
ticlan and the lawyer drew upcompany the following week); he Mayor 100. Here is how it will work. First, the sharply when I asked the tricky opened new railways with lavish celebrations. The Yorkshire Gazette He rewarded Sunderland by build- ERP administrator will lend dol-
"Will you support the ceremony; made the Prince Consort devoted 12 columns to the occa- ing its docks with hin shpreholders" lors-thirty million dollars-to. Eire
inclusion of Spain-franco-Spain-laugh; entertained the greatest in the sion. The first train achieved 20 money." Fire has no chance of repaying this
land.
miles an hour, and the men whoso in the ERP system?" directly. Sae has no "I think would be safer If 1
money had bullt i mnde merry exports
Drama? There is drama in plenty with a 5-hour banquet. to
did not answer that". I pressed and so no means of earning herself him further. He still did not an-in this rough Yolm Bull of a York-
but shireman, riding the storm
The methods by which Hudson" any dollars, now or in the future
on this, The trouble has been avoided by swer any questions IN THE CHING
expanded his kingdom in the next lost it seemed that Hudson bad even-rallway mania, at last crushing na suggested that Spain would Dublin applying to London-strange tually have to be drawn into the ruin.
nine years were far from prosent let the railway mania run away He began to over-reach new friendship and there
day standards of commercial probity. with him gaining 5, stem of European co-operation-
Love interest? There is little of He used bullying and blarncy, show himself, Share prices were top- a promise that England will repay
not necessarily receiving Marshall
that. Mrs Hudson was as homely as
and bribery; he manship Eire's dollar debts, Eire, of causald
a pling, confidence weakening The her husband, the butt of Society master of infltration and the tech first real split came when it was will pay the sum in pounds sterling
for her malopropisms. But the Alm to London.
discovered he had sold shares....at... will deliver
conquer." Also sha
nique of "divide rund just what England needs in fat
for their heroes.
or Jupiler: Anally cattle, poultry, bacon and butter,
the Rail- his own companies. H roze to go. I was stopped. "You
was battle all the It
Inquiries followed. Scan
ร it.
defalcations totalling revelled RICH AT 30
An accused of has his fists up at the English, W.
of the opposition he fought dividends out of capital, ap £500,000. He had falsified accounts, sitting at his desk when I saw him, have not asked me about the most problem of
example and overcame is Lord Grey's threat pald with the new Anglo-Irish ugrec important external
Ireland.
knew what Why not?"
began to build a rival railway unless Hud- proprinted ment, full of technical terms about
Was coming. The partition ΟΙ cattle and in front
ternal problem we have." From draper, in time became a partner preserve the view from Lord Grey's There was no prosecution,
fell to poverty and exile. the text.
that point on I was not allowed to in the shop. Like Amold Bennett's estates.
Hudson could be a hard master But Hudson never gave up the move putting leave. Hit was a crafty.
Mr Povey he was happy and enter-
Ho
In his sixties, he contested Thot
made Aght. MacBride in Iveagh House."
Ireland is glad of her new gov-prising behind the counter. Before and a generous one,
friends, yet an election at Whitby, and might is what I heard from the kuowing ernment. It has lowered the price he was 30 he had become rich, by the fortunes of his
opponents in Dublin. When the elections were of tobacco and the price of Irish devotion to business, he marrying could pay an engine driver Ss. Gd, have won had not his
13-hour and the new Taoiseach (Prime whiskey. Now it is listening to the into his employer's family-and by for a
day. Hia Hines had him arrested for debt just
Doll. poli. Sunderland Minister) gathered together the anti-partition league."
The
six inheriting
£30,000 from a great spread out from Beralck to Bristol before the parties of the Left and the Parties counties of Ulster that are governed uncle,
and London; he owned great calates, least never forgot its benefastor; and friends raised a subscription. controlled a bank, docks and fac-
end his. which enabled him to he found he had to have the wild mont, outside Belfast, and are ́a. Hudson first ventured into railway tories.
Ile died From the start hin financial days in some comfort. men of the Clann 'na Poblachta part of the United Kingdom, are speculation in 1833 with a group of
-bold than in 1871, aged 71. sean MacBride's party,
now the great Irish grievance, The York traders. The line they planned methods were more
boys are used to inventing romanos The Yorkshire Balloon they called more than market price, to one of
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