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NEW NAMES FOR OLD

Irish Free State Wants a Change

The Irish Free State has advised the League of Nations that it wishes to be known as Eire, or Ireland, after the end of this year. The new name is the old Gaelic word for Ireland. Gaelic is the official language of the Irish Free State. It is taught in the schools, and the President (Mr E. de Valera) makes speeches in it.

Everywhere new names are replacing old ones. The name of the Norwegian capital, Christiania, was changed some years ago to Oslo. There are no Persian rugs any more. This year they are Iranian rugs instead,, for Persia has changed her name officially to Iran. The name Iran has ancient glories attached to it, and consequently has been revived. Constantinople is Istanbul—a name that the Turks want everybody to use for their city.

St. Petersburg has long been Leningrad. In the old name the Tsar, Peter the Great, who founded the city, was honoured. The new name honours Nicolai Lenin, one of the leaders of the Russian revolution. There is now no Russia, but only a Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, shortened to U.S.S.R.

500 Miles an Hour Captain G. E. Y. Eyston, the British racing motorist who holds the world’s land speed record, said in an interview this week, “There is no reason, from the point of view of human organism, why an automobile should not achieve a speed of 500 miles an hour. It is only a question of faster machines.” He said that the life of the engine of his racing car at full throttle was estimated at only two hours, and it consumed a gallon of petrol in 15 seconds, __

THE WEEK OVER THE WORLD

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Press, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22271, 9 December 1937, Page 1 (Supplement)

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NEW NAMES FOR OLD Press, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22271, 9 December 1937, Page 1 (Supplement)

NEW NAMES FOR OLD Press, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22271, 9 December 1937, Page 1 (Supplement)

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