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Eire stubbornly stuck to its pitifully few guns last week, resolutely maintained its determination to defend itself from British protection as well as Nazi invasion. Irish politicos had reached the point of admitting fear of assault from the Continent. Declared Minister for Supplies Sean Lemass: "We must prepare for the worst and prepare quickly. In case of attack the Government might be put out of action." But Eire continued to fear the British Tommies as much as the German airmen, independently went ahead on its own. Meantime, across the border in Northern Ireland, Tommies massed anyway, ready to jump...
...Office, offshoot of the League of Nations. Present at this year's session were 97 Government delegates, 36 employers' delegates, 35 workers' delegates, 247 technical advisers, who had gathered from 51 countries to talk about world labor problems under the presidency of 37-year-old Sean Lemass, Minister of Industry & Commerce in the Irish Free State...