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De Valera Heads I THE IRISH EMOCRAT (Incorporating "Irish Freedom") New Series No. 79 JULY, 1951 Price 3d. De Valera heads i "veiled coalition^ MACBRIDE CHAMPS AT BROWNE "TREACHERY" fits available for investment we may see on a small scale the development of the "Business as nsuaP'-says PAUL O'HIGGINS more commercially profitable raw materi- Our Political Correspondent als in Ireland. AFTER THE DULLEST ELECTION CAMPAIGN IN HISTORY, 'DEV' WAS "REPUBLICAN" M Secondly, Fianna Fail, the "Republican RE-ELECTED TAOISEACH BY 74 VOTES TO 62, THE THREE INDEPEND- Party" more conscious' than Fine Gael, ENTS WHO LEFT CLANN NA POBLACHTA VOTED AGAINST THEIR FORMER of the people's rooted anti-imperialism is concerned to make a sham pretence of the CHIEF. maintenance of neutrality by at once for instance starting a training scheme for The new Government can only survive with the tacit consent of the Opposition Civil Defence against atomic bombs groupings and 'Dev' is in control of what is in effect a thinly veiled Coalition — a 'black' inter- against which, in fact, for. the people in a party Government. given lpyal area., there is practically no Mr. Sean McBride, whose political means of defence. ineptitude in his handling of the On alt major Issues Fianna Fkil is at One with Fine Gael and-the small parties, Browne affair brought about Mr. Fiknna TOM xtoepted Marshall Aid fully SOME PEOPLE ABE LUCKY! Costelte's downfall, rages impotently aware of the political String*; attached. (See Page Four) against his former supporter. The. Fianna Fail organ, the 'Stmffljy Press' But no important policy changes are has welcomed the projected suhrey of Irish expected. There may be certain changes industrial resources by the1 Urflred States of emphasis but Coalition policy will con- profit-making concern International Basic tinue, having in any event been largely Economic Corporation. The 1l^fll*s«z It modelled on that of Fianna Fail. this survey is to Investigate pois&ie areas In a late message to the "Irish Demo- for profitable investment of United States crat" (see leader, Page Three),-Mr. Paul -oapttafc*' ~ -"' -^w^irviif*r O'Higgins describes the position in Dub- In its same issue (June 10th, 1951) the lin as "Business as usual." 'Sunday Press' welcomed the idea pro- jected by Theodore Koslow, financial edi- DUBLIN, 22 June tor of the United States International Dev is back in office. The change from News Service, that in order to obtain Costello to De Valera makes no im- cheap labour and cheap raw materials portant difference to the welfare of the United States firms should transfer opera- Irish people. De Valera's programme con- tions to Ireland. tains little that differs from the policy of the previous Government. The decision that the Store Street Bus Station shall be restored to its proper purpose can hardly be taken as indicative of any serious Connolly's change. On two points only a more serious dif- ference can be seen. Firstly, Fianna Fall old friend drawing its funds and support from the new Irish industrialists is likely to heip them in improving transport services and arrested incidentally profits, by developing Irish American Imperialism has arrested James Some Achill farmers do not look far for turf, but their land is in Connolly's old friend and shipbuilding and Irish motor-vehicle con- beth Gurley Flynn, Rundale and widely scattered. struction. Representing groups with pro- of the America-Irish, sympathies. Details are not yet to hand of the charge* to be preferred, but it is expected they will resuroble those which kept Jim Larkln In JaB Cork Supports FOLLOW McGINTY ON BACK PAGE § for "from two to ten years!" with a "flexible sentence." The charge then waa. "criminal § HE TIPPED $EVEN WINNERS § anarchy." Fianna Fall Protest resolutions should be poured into From J. SAVAGE ^ at a profit of £4-7-7 § the American Embassy in London or Dublin. N the general election Cork has definitely Release Mrs. Flynn at once. J rejected the inter-party Government by C BUT, REMEMBER, WHEN YOU WIN MONEY, THANKS TO K the victory of Fianna Fail in securing three out of the five seats in the City constituency. HIS SELECTIONS, THE "DEMOCRAT" HAS | Mr. James Hickey (Labour) scraped through C A FIGHTING FUND § for the last seat. SAILING TICKETS This, of Gourse, was SEE MIDDLE PAGE due to the Propor- tional Representation system, otherwise Fianna Fail would have gained a further seat. It was near im- Irish family broken up by British laws possible to canvas for Labour as the elec- 7 tors could not see any Gentleman- hooligans procure evictions UOW Polish gentleman-hooligans 'IRISH DEMOCRAT' REPORTER nounced that he needed the room for his difference between n voting for-theni and tried to terrorise the wife of a practice. * vottog for„thpm ar young Tipperary man wfrtrie family tat'ttr«e4M«#$]en 11 them notice to quit on the spot. With tears To Court took part In "the Coalition and 'whewhen It ppui t was broken up by British capitalist in her landlady's eyes she begged them to Doctors are important men, «nd 1 forward as Labour an ex-Fine Oael, T. D. rent laws, was told to an "Irish Demo- leave quietly and not take the case to the table citizens, even though Anthony, who voted for the flogging Bill in crat" reporter in Willesden. rent tribunal. Not so green as to be moved capable of Miring tht 1 1922. by the crocodile tears of this race of blood- When the iriihtftan, They failed to put forward any progressive "Do not publish my name," he urged suckers, they went to the tribunal, who worker was as gogi alii policy except lip service to poverty, slums and the "Democrat," "or I will lose my ia»t gave them nine months' security of tenure unemployment with no solution to these move, th» foil problems. They made it clear that they chance of accommodation." ar.d reduced the rent to 22'6 a week. •But to help him to 1 accepted capitalism as the term Labour did The young man lives In one furnished So what did the landlady do? Like a he brought his sleek Polish not mean anything to the workers. room for which he pays 30/- a week. good capitalist she took her capital else-- friends along to frighten the. wife, The Cork workers deposed Fine Oael. but where. She sold the premises to a Polish followed the husband for a while, but consider Labour no better. If Labour put Quit t doctor, and he proved fully capable 01" elded after spite hesitation, jUg'-'tio forward a Socialist policy independent of all A year ago. when his brought an making use of Britain's laws—one set for attacking tffrijmBy.'ltot fee parties, the result would have gained them wile (Continued on N* Ma) victory. addition to the family, the landlady gave the rich, another for the poor. He anr July, 1951 THE IRISH DEMOCRAT 2 THE IRISH DEMOCRAT July, 1951 THE IRISH What says the * Dismal Science?9 DEMOCRAT FLANN CAMPBELL ON Felon-setting fever afflicts A.P. League All Correspondence to The Editor * WE WILL STAND FIRM' - Kilrov. kiUoiimiins DESMOND GREAVES RICH AND POOR DETERMINATION of the Anti-partition League leadership, the "official Parliamentarians" at of the present day, never to suffer any undue inconvenience for Ireland, is expressed in their MAY HAYES 13 Lambs Conduit Passage, London, W.C.I TO the superficiaINl observe IRELANr Eire to-day may seem moreD prosperou s than attempts to exclude the followers of Connolly from the League. This can mean only one thing, WRITES: at any time since the Treaty. Wealth in its umccaii ricln• form may be seen in many Irish towns; and Dublin particularly, with its smart •yHE news that the Anti-Partition of RATE—Twelve Months 4/6 namely, that they have abandoned completely the republic of 1916 and are prepared for a "settle- Six Months 2/3 restaurants, chromium-plated pubs, shining American cars, and well-filled Ireland League, at its recent con- ment" half in, half out of the Empire. luxury shops shows all the outward signs of solid bourgeois affluence (so ference, decided to exclude Connolly long as you keep to the main streets and middle-class residential areas). To The two splendid Irishmen, Kilcommins and Kilroy, generally acknow- Association members from the League watch the smartly-tweeded farmers' wives at Leopardstown Races or to ledged the born leaders of the younger Irish in Manchester, have been is just another manifestation of its DAMN YOUR observe a well-to-do Dublin businessman eating steaks in Jury's Hotel is subjected to a campaign of misrepresentation and blackmail. To the credit inability to form a real militant to realise how triumphantly the Catholic middle-class has arrived in Eire. of the Manchester anti-partitionists let it be said, they are overwhelmingly united movement in Britain. CONCESSIONS It has been a long and stony road from in 1943 of the Secretary of Irish Agricultural FLANN CAMPBELL in favour of these two men remaining in the League. Some have tried to the few barren acres of bogland or the miser- Organisation Society that ". output has Oar tragedy after another has befallen CEW will be deceived into thinking able huckster's shop which was usually all remained more or less stationary since the persuade them to give up their militant republican principles in order not the League, always due to the reactionary • that De Valera's return will mean the native Irish could hope for in the 18th beginning of the century." Independent," Laurence A.
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