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While the British Navy acted last week to repair a serious breach in the British Empire defense, Viscount Craigavon, His Majesty's Prime Minister in Northern Ireland, scurried to London for an urgent conference with Warlord Winston Churchill on an equally serious problem: "Irish back door...
...Prime Minister Eamon de Valera stubbornly refused to compromise. "In order to prevent misapprehension," he declared last week, "I desire to repeat that the Government has no intention of departing from the policy of neutrality adopted last September. ..." Representing land-owning Londonderrys and other Conservatives in Northern Ireland, Viscount Craigavon was equally adamant. "Mr. de Valera is once again blackmailing the British Government to end partition," he accused...
...with the French Legion organized by General Charles de Gaulle, to Northern Ireland to await developments. But last week, as military experts emphasized the urgent necessity of closing the "Irish back door," the popular demand grew in England for a final settlement of the Irish question through sacrificing Lord Craigavon and the six Northern counties in return for a unified defense of the British Isles...
...Eire's leaders are: President, Douglas Hyde; Premier, Eamon de Valera; Defense Minister, Frank Aiken. Northern Ireland's: Governor, The Duke of Abercorn; Premier, Viscount Craigavon of Stormont...
...Northern Ireland, the people there have two minds on the subject. One-third of the population is Catholic (although there is no Catholic in the Government) and looks upon union with Eire as a deliverance from the fanatically Protestant rule of Lord Craigavon's Northern Ireland Government. Industrial (and very much depressed) Belfast would, moreover, be a natural complement to agricultural Eire...