Tale of a Jockey

Tale of a Jockey

Typical of the "scoops" which Baron Beaverbrook likes to score in his lively London Daily Express was an interview last week with famed Irish Jockey Michael Beary, recent winner of the Irish Derby on Dastur.

To the Express glib Jockey Beary told a tale of how he has been the secret intermediary between the British and Free State governments in recent weeks, claiming to have arranged President de Valera's original face-to-face meeting at No. 10 Downing Street with Premier James Ramsay MacDonald (TIME, June 20).

Jaunty Jockey Beary strung the patriotic Express still further along by declaring that what a great many Irish Catholics and Protestants really want is a union of the whole island under the Prince of Wales as Head of the State! Jockey Beary described how, before he was admitted to talk with President de Valera, he was peered at through a steel slit in the door.

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