President's Week

P: The government of long-necked Eamon de Valera was accused by the governors of the Cork North Infirmary last week of withholding nearly $2,600,000 due to Irish hospitals as results of the last three Irish Hospitals' Sweepstakes (on the November Handicap, the Grand National, the Derby).

P: Sir Walter Richard Nugent, Irish Senator and Chairman of the Great Southern Railways of Ireland, announced at a stockholders meeting last week that unless President de Valera called off his tariff war with Britain, the fall in freight loadings would force the Great Southern to abandon all service and return its territory to the pony and the jaunting car. He was particularly bitter against the $1 a ton tax on British coal. The fire-boxes of his locomotives are adjusted for Brit ish coal only.

P: In Dublin last week a mildly Fascist group of veterans of the Irish Free State army and the prede Valera Republican army was organized as "The Free State Army Comrades Association." President: Dr. Thomas O'Higgins, member of the Dail and good friend of former President William T. Cosgrave. Their first pronunciamento attacked Communism "or any disguised form of it introduced surreptitiously into the country." In addition the Comrades Association attacked long-necked President de Valera and his tariff war with Great Britain: "We regard as charged with extremely dangerous potentialities the new fashion of branding as traitors certain public men with whom we have had the privilege of being associated in defense of the state. Should any Irishman come to harm as the result of 'traitor pointing' the consequences may lead to a deplorable condi tion of reprisal and counter-reprisal."

P: In reprisal the de Valera government secretly recalled hundreds, of their more violent followers exiled to Canada and the U. S. by the Cosgrave government. At Saint John, New Brunswick reporters found one Vincent Boyle who admitted that he had received $100 and passage back to Ireland from the present Minister for Defense, Frank Aiken, that he was on his way to New York to join 700 more returning to Ireland.

"Trouble is brewing in Ulster," said Vincent Boyle. "They're letting me back in my country to fight."

P: Intent on furthering his economic war, Eamon de Valera had lengthy conferences last week with the six Free State commissioners who regulate Irish currency. Rumors would not be denied that they were discussing the possibility of establishing a separate decimal Irish currency based on the dollar instead of the pound, a move sure to be popular with school children, bookkeepers, adding machine manufacturers and Anglophobes. In 1926, four years after the establishment of the Irish Free State, the entire Irish dollar question was gone into exhaustively by a commission headed by Economist Dr. Henry Parker Willis of New York who decided against it, pointed out the dangers to Ireland of a currency system divorced from that of her nearest and biggest customer, Great Britain.

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