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THE SOUTHERN IRISH IN BRITAIN HAVE

HAVE NOW BECOME ALIENS

BERNARD BHAW Playwright, born Dublin

by John Prebble

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A new nation has come into Imagine yourself arrested by being by the

of it a policeman action

(from Southern own elected Assembly. Under Ireland), brought

before international law 'ts subjects are magistrale (from Southern Jre- allens on all coll but its own. land), prosecut d by counsel

(from Southern Ireland).

Serjeant A. b. Sullivan, venerable serjeant-at-law, who hoa given a large part of his professional Wife to Brituln, and who is a proud Southern Irish-

nnn, puts it thus:-

"We

shell

become, foreign Republicans, legal persons - Brely fferent from the citizens

Under law (unless they have sent that little letter 10 Mr Chuter Ede), nono of them has any right to interfere with you.

And what of the good soldier Kelly in the Irish Guards, or the RAMC? He may legally be a man

who could desert to-

A blind cyo

of Eire that, we now are... morrow without the Army being i We shall be disqualified from able to proceed against him. GREAT day for Ire, holding or acting in any publie Innd it was on April office reserved for British aui- jects, whether in the legislature, 18, for sure. On the the judiciary, the local 33rd anniversary of the thority, от the electorate,

United recently the Briish And Mr Kelly, at the Civil when 2,000 Easter rising

Government seems to have suf- Service. Since all civil servantr Irishmen made a bloody at- fered from a peculiar myopia on murt, he British citizens, has he tempt to set up the First this point. Even now its vision really had any right to hold his Republic of Ireland, that re- is dun. It has believed that Mr Jobs since January 1949

covered the puldic was established by Attlee's statement

To all of these problems, very law in the Dail.

real and very perplexing, the It is now claimed that when Government seems

have Yet, if I were Southern Irish the Premier made his statement turned a bind eye, which does and resklent in Britain, I would last November there was no ex- it less credit than it did Nelson. be tempering my jubilation with pectation that the Irish would hard thought I would be sitting go and pass this Republic Rill, down and asking myself complicating the issue and mak- whether I

animal. Ing it too Irish. was' now vegetable, or mineral.

situation.

This point of view is hard to For what does the Republie of believe. For the British Nation- Ireland Bill make the mill on ality Act, which Mr Attlee quot- which Lime, ind odd Southern Irish in Britain? ed at the Irish? British? Both, or nether? became law on January 1, has a

particularly important clause.

No agreement

that

Let us confess frankly there is no unanimous answer. In Parliament, where the na- Won's statutes are made, there appears to be no agrement on this point with members of the legal profession.

For your information it is Part 1, Section 2, Sub-section (1). Sub-sub-sretions (a), (b) and (c).

Welcome relief

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These Are Ships That Make News

(BY A SHIPPING CORRESPONDENT)

BIGGEST ship in the NEW motor coller Murdoch,

world in the future may ta ship with a disappearing Just launched at Aberdeen, carry oil and not passen- funnel.

Kers. Already tankers are. being built on stocks in this Due to bring cont from the north-east coast to London, the country which In the past Murdoch has to pass under 15 have

been reserved for bridges before arriving at her liners.

llscharging point.

Masts they telescope The keel plates are ready the-holds-us

ELIZABETH BOWEN Movoltat, born Cork

Into for

funnel ก 28,000-ton tanker disappear as the ship noves up which will be built on the river. Tyne as soon as a new pas- · All members of the crow of senger liner vacates the slip- the 200ft. long collier

their own cabins.

well as

hava

MICHAEL DEARY Juckry, bern Tipperary

Authority.

way.

Another giant tanker now building on the Tyne will be JUST left Southampton, the launched early next year. Is on her last trip ns.

10,000-ton Arundel Castle and a third 28,000-tonner is emigrant ship to South Africa. on order.

To help a Dutch party of more than 200, the Union

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Because of the great increase Castle Line arranged for In shipbuilding cosia. It will bo special train to run them direct years, the experts say, before to the liner from Parkeston vessels comearable in nize with Quay where they arrived from the Queen Elizabeth and Queen the flook. Mory (80.000 tons) are planned again.

The Coronin, largest ner bullt anywhere in the world since the war, is 34,000 tons.

since rewarded as a practical post-

On her return to this country the Arundel Castle wil undergo a complete rent.

MR

*

*

moun-

Churchill's return The 50,000-on tanker is now

voyage has recalled his wip with Dominian troops in hilly Before ships of

the Queen Elizabeth in 1040. this nize can be brought into oil-

ife told thousands of them: Higher | enerving business,

"Yesterday Was on the improved bridge, watching the facilities will have to be offemd tainous waves and this ship Labour.nls in various parts of the which

in 10 pup-cutting. through them and mocking **

their anger. **

"I asked myself, why is it the Kingsway, W. C., firm have ship bents the waves when they A made 16 letters, 3ft.

ein. are so many and the ship" is high, which will light up across one? the world,

The reason is that the ship has a purpose and the waves

I telephoned the War Omlee, since I thought they must have technically been aliens made some arrangements about January 17"

That, I was told once more, the aliens, present or potential,

A Mutter for A In their ranks.

was told that was as for az the

War House was Matter for

'The Ministry of concerned this was A Higher Authority.

which has dealings with large world. sections of Irich labour, told ine. My informant confessed, picasantly enough. "It is not parentheses (and' a rich brogue), our pigeon, old chinp."

Meanwhile, what is The Higher Authority, whose pigeon it 18, doing? Is away.

that he was rather interested in

matter

he since the Southern Irish himself.

was

"Not_our_pigcon"

At the Home Omec I gathered

*

They are reon jube letters have none.

our

But according to Lord Addi- son on March B. "The Govern- which will spread 2Bft. оп

"They just flop around, innu- ment has under consideration either side of the new P. and merable,

tireless, but

in- the question of what legislation. luxury liner Himalaya, due effective.

The ship with the that the Republic of Ireland Billight be required to give effect to sail on her maiden voyage purpose takes

to the policy enunciated by the 10 Australia in the autumn.

us where we: If you are not following me, was not bothering them in the Prime Minister on November 25, The lights, protected

vant to go. Let us, therefore, Nationality arising from

from have purpose, both in of the sea by toughened glass will national and imperial policy do not be upset. Your confusion least. The British

the Republie "Then," I said, "all Irishmen

announce the ship's name as and in our own private lives." Yet the position as it is most is matched by that of his Act covered everything."

Majesty's Government, who

sho passes other vessels at intimately and perhaps ously affects the futures of Fri- must have found their Eastern who have not registered have, Kelly, of Declor Kelly, and Mr vate Kelly and Police Consitable holiday a welcome relier. Justice Kelly, of the Kellys of the Civil Service, the local coun- cits, the shops, the factories, and the offices,

#elev-

As the argument now stands, they are now aliens, every one of them.

The clause states that "n clll- zen of Eire, being a person of age and capacity" can make application to the Secretary of State to be registered as a cili- zen of the United Kingdom and the Colonies.

The application is nothing formal. It can be made at any time within the life of the Irish- man, and is nothing more than

Which is embarrassing, to say the least, for Messrs. Kelly, who have been enjoying the rights letter to Mr Chuter Ede, and obligations of British citizen pointing out that you would like ship, for under the law as it him to think of you as a British stands a foreigner cannot hold citizen as well as a citizen of an official position in Britain, Eire, Or should it be of be a member

armed Republic of Ireland" of the forecs ur vote in a municipal o pari amentary election.

On holiday

the

Bit of the million add Irish in Britain, fewer than 3,000 have so far made such application.

reland Ach."

-(London Express Service).) night,

-(London Express - Servics)

Crocuses and ice-cold pop herald

Broadway spring

By FREDERICK COOK

LONG Broadway the

questionable laste, takes place in an umlerlaker's.

Those who think God, prayer, biblical quotations, and dicat, are suitable toples for bibulous humour are enjoying i

It left a nasly taste in my

Aime has come. Whet In the cinemas, shirt sleeves mouth.

young man's fancy turns to exactly the same thoughts

are de riguer again and in the theatres

loosening their collars,

mon ano

- pur-

but

-

LISA Sings I always be true.

not_a_mbat.

The

play marks the Arat sault on Broadway by Dalton Trumbo, one of the Hollywood as he has been thinking all And the crazy spring hats writers convicted of contempt winter. The theatre mani pretty much like last year's the

are all colours. Siraws, mainly of Congress for refusing to tell Un-American Activities It may have dawned on yougers are polishing up the Decorated with huge red cnu Committee whether or not they by now that there is something signs saying "Aircooled for bage rases, tulips, nodding were Communists (the case is snowdrops and fimy pleces of now before the Appeals Court). Parliament, which, since Jan- more terrible in all this. It in uary 1. last, has had ample op- that although the State of Elre your comfort."

The street corner----ronst-vell that..serve...no portunity to clarify the situation, disappeared at a second pin chestnut-men have switched to pose et all so far as may min if I called Woul's play a dis-

on the morning went off on hol day leaving one twelve o'clock

pop. Crocuses are can see beyond enraging the sertation on ethics it would be million Irishmen uncertain of of April 18, the Republic of Ire ice-cold

isow belt.

accurate, As Mac West strictly Thou- land l does not really aller blooming, what tha'r position was.

13 Along situation that has been

Park Avenue the says, all the world loves a lover complete to the point of unfair- sands in the Civil Service, in

January E in Inp

ness. dogs shiver without their until he has to sit behind a

It is all about whether municipal employment and in operation since

imink coats. The children have couple at n first night.

a man's loyally belongs to his the Services are technically Erilain.

emerged from their snow suits

country or to an International holding their jobs legally,

It is undoubtedly spring ideal. and are beginning to mire even rel, green, yellow, purple pasts of themselves about the and sky blue nylons are in the

It stings thoughts to life in a for gaully circus preters that have shops 75. Oct. a pair-and the country where lately a postcard

Piculed all over the town.

eap of tw plays nees on, Two accusing an offeint of having a hove opinal up un successive distant cousin once seen with nights, which bring together a man suspected of knowing a and looking into the

wmen who were the Communist socinlly has almost lights of Broadway 27 years ago been enough to ruin him. Woch cenac bù plays were run- ut there.

Is it ng bad as that? I am afraid it is.

Come back five months. The Government of Eire then an nounced its intent en of repeal ing the External Relations Act, thus severing the last link with the British Crown. There also some talk of a Republic of Ireland Bill.

was

n

Foreign country

On that data the British Nationality Act implied that nii citizens of Eire who do not write to Mr Chuter Ede cannot regard themselves as Dritish citizens.

"There in no une," says Ser- jeant Sulliven, in the Govern- the iment refusing to 'regard* It has been whispered that the Republic of Ireland as a foreign Republie Bill was due to become country. Once it is disconcert Jaw on New Year's Day, but from the Crown in foreign ten- Irishmen in Br lain are said to tions, it is a foreign country. have sent urgent appeals to Eire however unpleasant the cous- arking the Dall to wait until the matter of e'tizenship in Britola could be determined.

quesecs."

And, of course, they may be very unpleasant. All this year, But, said Mr Attlee reassur it seems, aliens have been per- ingly en Noveraber 25, "the ving in British uniform, sitting United Kingdom Government on the judiciary, sitting in the will not regard the enactment of House of Comnions, and the ths legislation by Eire, as plac Government has never once ad- ing Etre in

category of mitted that fnet, even to Rzelf. the foreign countries, or Eire citizens

the category foreigners."

In

Not so simple

of

One or two MPs, who were born in Southern Ireland, have approached Mr Ede about their own position. They have found him as confused as they,

the peor M.P.: You might think that settled does not register his Consti→ things. Unfortunately, however tuents are likely to ask what! powerful Mr Altice may be, he right has he; an allen, to repre

international or sent them. If he does registus. cannot alter

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One of the silne prvet performances →

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The doctus Bril 16 End her satest,

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Johnny Belinda”

Jano WYMAN' wins The Academy Award,

1948, for hor performance in this picture.

TO-MORROW

Valoria.HOBSON In

"THE SMALL

VOICE"

so in the House of Commons. of such apparent defection?

NANCY

Won in a Breeze

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zender), 4ft, alligator (handed to the Society Animals) and scores of hand- Prevention of Cruelty to

bugs and bottles of perfume,

Seen enjoying the sunshine dealers' windows

art- along 37th Street (our Bond Street) during

Hear

a lunch-time chroll: Miss Harriet The play is built around the Brown (Greta Garbo) in on all Canadian spy ring disclosures, blu Comp. fition then

Lailored was such 11athplen is

outht: professor who Fonda, bare headed bronze in a that you esult get tickets to sincerely believes atomic recrets turtle-necked fi hawt at eut per nd belong to all

sweater: John and who gets Garfield, Lill Texus involved in espionage trouble.

Palmer, Loc CODU (slur of "ca of a Salesman); Helen Hayes, Burgess "Hamlet"

may hsvo won Meredit Hollywood awards, But that does not mean British pictures Though it's fir leap from In thore days Jed Harris and are having any more success at the social register to the tree Herman Shumlin were running the box office. As a matter of ups of Hollywood and the their are rich strike, "Broad statistical fact they are at lower. breast beatings of Tarzan, wayne of the classic melo chb than ever before.

Alexander Crichlow Barker anime of all time. Sines then Los Angeles

the name now renda in lights. they have won world famous surveyed, only Alve

Lex Barker has made it with tep, rank directors.

ne greatest of case. chowing British pletures, Now Shumlin is presenting ́ "Hamlet" and

Barker, formerly "Red Shoes"

of Park Dalton Trumbo's "The Biggest

Avenue and Princeton Univor. were showing

Arst-run Thief In Town," with Thomas theatres.

Is tenth in the line, of So, was "Don't Take y Mitchell, Just across the way it to Heart." is Harris's production of "The was on in two small suburban the highest income-tax bracket. "Blanche Fury" Tarzans to swing himself into Trior," by novelist Herman housea.

The 25th of the Tarzan epics Wouk, with Lee Tracey, fine ok

starts ctcr Walter Hampden, and Lattice Plail,

Neliher play is likely to make theatrical history.

Of 121 district. cinemas

were

the

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rounds with Lin Kirk of the "Kiss Me guaranteed audience of at least Kate" cast (her song "I'll always 65 millions-11,000 cinemas FOXE be true to you, darling, lu.my just waiting their turn to show fashion," is worth the 30s. price it.

The alcoholle nction of the of à stáll), has revived 47 pro- Compare that with British "Thief.". much of it in highly. posals of marriaga since the plctures' promotion in America

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