THE Apostolic Nunciature announced in Dublin yesterday that His Holiness the Pope had appointed the Most Rev John F D'Alton, Bishop of Meath, to be Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All-Ireland in succession to the late Cardinal MacRory. The new Primate is a nephew of the late Mgr D'Alton, the well-known Irish historian and Dean of Tuam. A Doctor of Divinity and a Doctor of Literature, Archbishop D'Alton is one Ireland's foremost classical scholars.
He was educated at Blackrock College and Clonliffe College, Dublin before going to the Irish College in Rome where he was ordained a priest in 1908. He is 63 and was born in Claremorris, Co Mayo.
After his ordination, Dr D'Alton spent some time studying at Oxford and Cambridge. In 1910 he was appointed Lecturer in Classics at Maynooth. In 1922 he became Professor Greek and in 1934. On the death of Mgr. McCaffrey two years later, he was made President.
Archbishop D'Alton was consecrated CoAdjutor Bishop of Meath in 1942. In 1917 he published his most famous work, Hollis and his Age which made a profound impression on classical scholars.
MR GROMYKO, Soviet delegate, bitterly attacked Britain's pre-war foreign policy when the UNO Security Council took up the question of Spain yesterday. Britain, Mr Gromyko declared, had supported non-intervention in the case of Italian aggression against Abyssinia [in 1935], German and Italian intervention in the Spanish Civil War and Hitler's aggression in Europe.
New American factory
The formal opening of a new Board of Trade factory at Castlereagh in Belfast, which will produce a new type of dry cell battery and is expected to employ over 500 workers, was performed yesterday by Lady Nugent. It is the last of four factories built in Northern Ireland by the Ministry of Works, the others being at Derry, Lurgan and Castlereagh.
The occupying company is P R Mallory and Co whose headquarters are at Indianapolis, USA. Production has begun although the factory has not yet been fully mechanised.
It will manufacture all types of dry battery cells which will have many advantages over the present types including a retention of power which prevents it from going down. The special battery was first developed in the US for military purposes.
The British Ministry of Supplies became interested and invited the company to come over.