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Victory For The Subs

By FREDERICK COOK

•TAGGERING blow to US. naval planners has been the outcome of big-scak? manoeuvres in the North

A hundred ships were supposed to attack Newfound land and seize a beachhead near Argentina. Only defence was eight of the new type stay-down sub- marines..

Stripped of the start college phrasing, report on the manoeuvres shows that the fleet falled, disastrously.

Theoretically, the eight subotarines sank or crippled the whole attacking force. Navy men here are woll. aware that today's Russian navy in largely an under- sea navy, with around 100 of the new submarines on hand and unknown numbers building, Dig changes in. navy strategy are forecast.

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Lway here.

ARGE-SCALE warplane production is now under Thirty-five of the latest monster Jet

bombers are being built in factories which onco turned out the now obsolete Super-Forta,

Well over 2,000 high-speed jet bombers are on order in factories right across the country. One factory alone has an order for 800 jet fighters, aiother for 1,200.

CIDELIGHT on the difficulty ordinary Americans are About 34,500,000 having to make ends meet: women (95 percent) atow do, some home towing. Sales of sewing machines are booming and the waiting-list is mouths long.

Eire wonders what all the fuss is about

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JOHN NORTHROP, fimous air- craft bulider, predicts thai by 1000 there will be no piloted war- -planes Gulded missiles will do all the attacking and most of the de- fending.

Only transports, will need men to fy them. Northrop also believes big airplanes will be driven by nuclear energy by about the same time.

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England, he said, should with- "I don't think the repeal will US women can now buy a new.. draw her. "Army of Occupation", maka any difference to that.". but

Sorry to lose

thinks we ought to go

DUBLIN. plaque that commemorates the death

of three volunteers there 32 years. ago. "Sure, Dov's been telling us wave had one for years. We're not going to quarrel with you about it. now.

LONG O'Connell-street a brisk wind ruffles the leaves of the pamphlets that hang outside the tobac conist's 'shop near the Rotunda. There you can buy 20 best quality cigarettes for 25. 9d. and, if you have a mind for it. the full story of Ireland's struggle "against England's ruthless and bloody tyranny,"

So you are un English journalist," said the man behind the counter. "What do I think

"You will give my views a big said the paragraph, will you?" policeman in Wexford-street. have no bitterness towards England. We cannot cut adrift from her in But the people the world today. agree with the repeal of the Act."

"Ninety percent of the people here

Her Conscience

from Uister."

Not often do you meet Republloon, however, since MacBride and his followers turnCÜ cons:itutionalists.

BOYS.

henylon.

"miracio dress" made wholly of

It looks like heavy taffein. But it a true 2."I like the English. Our pound can be washed in the hand basin, Scan is backed by yours. But if the dries in a few moments, and never

alicas and needs ironing. repeal means we are our workers have to -como homa from England, sure then we need | them here,"

Eiro's Parliament, the Dail, recently passed o Bill repealing the External Relations Act and cutting. tho fast official link with the British Crown. Here, from DUBLIN," is account of what the or- dinary people think, by JOHN PREBBLE.

an

The Iron grid that was put over The student in Davy Byrne's bar the public gallery to stop the young

TS a shrimp with its head removed You meet the occasional wise-acre 1 a "manufactured product. This leaning on Usher's Quay or drink- | solemn question will be debated by ing Guinness, at Mooney's. He the Supreme Court. Millions hang will tell you that Costello is bluff on the answer:

Ing. trying to force Britain, to give up partition.

If it is, it must pay higher rail-

But most of the Irish feel a way fares. If not, it can still go little hurt that England should be as food. Unwashed spinach comea: making a fuss about what

to into the argument, too. Unwashed, them a simple matter of honour. it is simple farm produce; washed.

A

They are calling de Valera's Act"]it remains to be seen.

cod." A pretty plece of smart practice which gave Irish diplomats some backing, when they needed it.

-Fears Softened

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V. DURLING, New York

in London, learned to play darts and is now trying to'popularise the gamo

E. columnist, who spent some time-

Trish fears, if they existed, have here.' been softened with forecasis that

of the repeal of the Act? It's was thinking of Ireland's soul. "She ladies of the I.R.A. from throwing there will be a "conUnued exchange indoor n good, honest thing for Ire. awes it to her consciente to repeat bags at flour on the gentlemen of of citizenship and preferential rights I wonder why it has never caught on

land:"

He leaned across the pictures of three Republicans shot by the English in 1916. "But it would be sad to lose England's friend- Bhip."

A Paradox

the Act. The King means nothing, to us, jud.

"But what would happen to In land's conscience if we cut away England's friendship I don't know."

For there is something of England In Ireland's physical ́and spiritual structure.

from

the Dail has cullived its purpose.

But to a degree the belief that

With the repeal will have small effect on- Anglo-Irish relations is shared by many Dublin businessmen.

"The only preferences we have means. - are governed by trade agreements,

hase

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in SOUTH CAROLINA, which has no divorce problems because it has

"It is one of Britain's favourite games, he says, "and I England."** free association of the Repubile and

There will be' a here." A dart board is almost never seen here; never at all in the U.S. a Monarchy."

version of the pub. Sometimes in Dublin streets you

to

the explain what

repeal Joo

Malloy, who sells papers not the Act," I was told by Senator Gruften-s.reet, has an accent as The taxi driver drove his Amer. J. G. Douglas, draper, of Wexford- thick as the smell of peat that als can saloon too fast for my comfort prect, and one of the first architects Dublin's air. "Anything because he was in a hurry to see of the Free State Constitution.

that gets Ireland her

But that does not mean they will "Hamlet."

Douglas is one of the many Irish freedom, if you take my meaning, painted who say art

The King

England is a good thing," he said. "And Opponents are carrying the fight to the State Legislature to kill a pro.... But some still

carry Vice

means nothing to me, one way or it should be good for the fellows

posed ansondment to the Constitution. toria's monogram.

the other." But ho also says: "We up North, the whole 32 On the lamp-posts little posters would like to play our part in the of us. appeal, "A phrase in Irish is a brick. Comunionwealth." in the national edlice."

But rarely do you hear Irish fr Dublin.

The pillar-boxes

Man In The Street

He Likes Us

For there is in Ireland a paradox that makes for Irish charm, a double desire for complete independence and closer relationship with Britain. Mover has Britain stood so high in Ireland's esteem. It is not entireip unprejudiced. A large part of the Ireland's £95 million which was tourist revenue last year came from shopkeepers who silk Foll

In Dame street, young Kevin English visitors sweets and silk

Wilson has his auctioneer's office stockings without coupons, the cafes

He la a man with a love for Ire which drape their steaks with fri

Thousands of Irish have interland's viole; hills and has been married with the English. The conducting thousands of pounds eggs, the grocers, who ask them to eat more cheese all know the value Irishman in the street; if he is not worth of business with Englishmen, of England's friendship. MAN

dyed British military, But it would be unjust to think wearing

about his that the Irish have only a trades percoat, tells you

brother who was torpedoed In a man's heart. Across O'Connell British tanker,

travel Bridge Sean Lynch manages a agency.

As a youth he was out with the Dublin volunteers in the Easter rising. He got three months in pri- son for that, and more when, the Black and Tans picked, him up in

1920..

No Bitterness

But there is no bitterness Lynch. "I'm glad about the repeal," he said. "We've been a detionary Republle too long.

upon

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counties

It is Improbable that Costello or his mixed Government have the slightest doubt that the people pro behind them.

For Irish eyes, when they are not smiling, are reading the lettering on the Parnell monument, beneath the golden harp, ef, Ireland m

"No man has the right to fix the boundary of the march of a nation."

no divorces they are illegal in the Slate-voted in a local election. 1o. permit divorecs.

A GROUP of scientists are defend-

Ing women who "feed their families out of cans" They claim that tinned foods are better than fresh on almost all counts,

After six years of study, the scien tists say "Cans serve as a -form of pressure cookers, keeping in, nutri- Live clements lost by home cooking."

Wonder Railway Built In Garage

complete breakdown

1.

And, can if in perpetual remem- brance of the Eagland that is withia

of electric trains. There are express travellers, and children being seen:

and the heart of Ireland, there looks WHEN Mr Harold S. Pate.

off, to school. · the

Addison-road, West down

Wickham, trains, local trains, -- shunters blue-carpeled

A his job trucks. Chamber of the Dail the Lust of a Kent, returns home from young man. It la Padraig Pearse, as a chemical engineer he goes to train stands in a siding. executed for his part in the Easter his garage and spends the evening Rebellion. He was the son of an working on his rallway Englishman.

Among the mass of the Irish there is no belief that the repeal will have grave consequences.

any

are

Outside the sta lens are taxicabs: only an inch long-but they havo spare wheels and windscreen... The masterpieces are a double-

model houses, sheep-van, the decker Highland

Driving between Mr Face's gacugó is

boy's wooden burs carved cut with in-houses, church and pubs, each of dream come true.. Apart from a finte trouble, and a horse trick which took months to make,

buses, motor lorries and cost carla The Issue has been confused space in the centre it is entirely complete with "the Derby winner."

One of the "dots" is loaded with with lay sacks of coal. There aro for them by isite-flying in the Irish occupied by an exquisite miniature

a traction engine and another with gardens, bridges and a dock where Tho pubile will have a When Costello made railway.

both, perfect ships are unloading. mechanical digger. î new announcement about two chance to see this wonderful piece months ago In

Dublin of workmanship soon, for it appears models which. Mr. Pace says, were Denounced

Cena Costello in: the British documentary iim Loca far more difficult to make than any newspapers "I fought the British but I, om cuts the last line with Britain Number One, which has just been of the trucks.. married to an Englishwoman, and.

given its trade show. my son-in-law is a proper John Bull So why should I want to break wlib the

Osh

"Maybe the English will declare us allens, but I don't think it will

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newspapers.

and Co-operation with British,"

Irish pride and COMAIL. sense tonk satisfaction from the first and the Bank of Ireland, look reassurance from the second.

For Irish pride, most sensitive, Ing through the columns at Trinity: College all day, stands a doorkeeper mast wounded of all emotions here. with British medal ribbons: on his is the guiding factor in the Irish-

man's at Ilude. Jackat

couldn't exist "We've got to remain in the But Commonwealth, do you see?

But not all are pleased with It Ireland must be honest with herself." The Repubilean in the street who "Republic it?" said a man in would not give his name had read Dame-street, leaning by a bronze his party's literature.

But this is not all Mr Pace's

on canvas all round the walls is a background of a rolling country- alde which hir Pace, who used to make the Ecenery - for amateur theatricals, painted in alls. Ho For more than 11 years Mr Pace away runs in a miniature land drew the clouds from life in

scape which is itself a masterpiece.

to the Corden, has been working on his railway. On his saliena, correct

carriages

Mr Paco runs his railway, which The 23, locomotives, 40

one foot, phone kiosks, weighing machines, represents 300 miles of railway in. of four milimetres to

theary, from switchboards COD- and DT trucks are at the exact scale. tiniest detail, are bookstalls, tile and Mr. Pace has gone to endless malibags and tiny luggage.

his.

soys Samuel without you," Army Of Occupation? troubla to see that they are correct About 150, passagers and rail tolning more than 100 swliches and.

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in every detall of design, colour and waymen made, of alabaster and we lettering..

about half an inch high," popula o the platformas There are soldiers, sailors, nurses, a young man carry- rackel, ebnimercial

The carriages range from all sub- urban stock to Pullman coaches and ing a tennis

By Ernie Bushmiller

lovers

I tried to make it as much like: the real thing and give it as much. Binuhere as perelble," Mr Pac explained.

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