opposition focused exclusively on the issue of the pension and failed to draw the public's attention to the fact that the new Bill was re-abolishing an office that de Valera had told them he had already abolished. By focusing on the pension (as he had hoped) the opposition failed to make capital out of one of de Valera's most dramatic and potentially humiliating mis-judgments, his first failed attempt to abolish the office of governor-general. References External links Text of act at Irish Statute Book 1937 in Irish law Acts of the Oireachtas of the 1930s Irish constitutional law Ireland and the Commonwealth of Nations