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Northern Ireland caught it last week. One night Nazi bombers roared over sooty Belfast for four thunderous hours. In the flaming darkness so many Ulstermen were killed that the usual Belfast newspaper obituaries were trebled. One Donnelly family, consisting of father, mother, three sons, three daughters and an aunt, was wiped out. A few days later the official Nazi radio accused Belfast officials of shooting "all the dangerous beasts" in the Belfast zoo in order to make it appear that Nazi bombs had done the killing and "incite all the animal-loving people of the entire world...
Bomb fires raged furiously in Belfast. To the rescue fire engines were driven with wide open throttles 100 miles from Dublin in neutral Eire. Last week Eire's Prime Minister Eamon de Valera made it plain that where wartime suffering is concerned, neutral Eire stands by warring Northern Ireland. "They are our own people," he said, "and their sorrows in the present instance are our sorrows...
...Eire, when Prime Minister Eamon de Valera banned The Great Dictator, a Belfast theatre (in Northern Ireland) tried to advertise the film in Dublin newspapers, with a schedule of train service to Belfast. Eire's censors promptly killed...
Died. Viscount Craigavon, 69, Prime Minister of Northern Ireland since the Ulster Government's establishment in 1920, implacable foe of Irish independence for more than 30 years; at his country house near Belfast. Famed alike for his bluntly uttered opinions and his fierce disregard of metaphorical discipline, once he roared: "The naked sword is drawn for the fight, and, gentlemen, never again will the black smoke of Nationalist tar barrels drift on the Home Rule wind to darken the hearts of Englishmen...
...distance from Belfast or Newcastle in Northern Ireland, where the R. N. and the R. A. F. may be at home, does not look so much greater out into the northern trade route than the distance from Lough Swilly, where R. N.'s nth Cruiser Squadron and the U. S. Navy's destroyers based in World War I. But it is 200 miles farther, out & back, and in wartime at sea every 100 miles counts. The distances from Berehaven and Cobh (Queenstown) in Eire to the southern trade lane (approach to Cardiff and Bristol as well...