sentences:  De Valera later appointed him a member of his "Council of State", a twelve-member body set up to advise him on the deteriorating situation in the civil war.He returned to the United States soon afterwards to serve as the Republic's envoy in the country.He ordered Robert Briscoe and some of his friends to take possession of the Consular Offices in Nassau Street, New York City, then in the hands of the Free State Government, so as to obtain the list of the subscribers to the bond drive organized to aid the struggle in the War of Independence.