DE VALERA IMPRESSES ROME Scot Student Sings to Him in Gaelic

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ROME.
The representatives of the Catholic world were proud of President de Valera, because he undertook the lung journey from Dublin to represent his country at the Pope's coronation.
His eyesight is very poor (he asked a group of Irish Franciscans in Rome to pray hard for him), and it was for no feast of the eyes that he was in St. Peter's and at the Vatican, he was only trying to fulfil St. Patrick's wish to the Irish people : " That you be Christians and Romans."
President de Valera was the only head of a State actually present in Rome.for the celebrations in honour of Pius XII's election.
Interview with Mussolini He was present at the reception given in honour of Cardinal Hinsley by the British Legation to the Holy See, although he had. to leave this early to keep an appointment with another ex-schoolmaster leader of the people, Sig. Mussolini.
The meeting with Sig. Mussolini lasted over an hour, but it is understood that no political collaboration between the two was discussed. The Two Gaelics
President de Valera visited Cardinal Hinsley at the Van. English College; he also visited the Scots College, and there one of the students, an ex-professional singer, Mr MacEwan, sang a Gaelic song in Mr de VaIera's honour. Mr de Valera was very interested in the Highland Gaelic, and spoke for some time in Gaelic to a student from the Hebrides who did not learn English till he was fourteen. Audience with Pope
On St. Patrick's Day. Mr de Valera was present at the church of St. Patrick. which is under the care of the Irish Augustinians. Mr de Valera had, of course, an audience of the Holy Father, hut what was discussed is only conjecture on the part of the Press reporters. His visit made a deep impression on the Catholic world in Rome.