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Prime Minister Eamon de Valera of neutral, nervous Eire last week paid tribute to the manners of his great warring neighbor. Said...
...London. There he talked with Winston Churchill, Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden, U.S. Ambassador John G. Winant, U.S. Minister to the Allies Anthony Drexel Biddle Jr., U.S. Minister to Eire David Gray. He let it be known that he might also go to Eire to confer with President Eamon de Valera...
Shocked by such pro-British utterances was Deputy Dillon's Party leader, onetime President William Thomas Cosgrave, who repudiated the speech. Even more shocked was Prime Minister Eamon de Valera. He tried to have the speech censored-to no avail. Eire's censor takes orders from nobody, sometimes censors even Taoiseach de Valera...
Chief debater for conscription was Northern Ireland's Prime Minister John Miller Andrews. Said he of Prime Minister de Valera's speech: "In my opinion this was unwarrantable interference. Northern Ireland is part of the United Kingdom; its constitutional position has been clearly defined and established by statute. Therefore, all matters connected with Northern Ireland are completely outside the jurisdiction of the Eire Government. . . . On behalf of the Government of Northern Ireland I repudiate the claim of Mr. de Valera to speak in the name of the people of this area...
...sharp wartime pains refused to leave Eire. Scarcely had Prime Minister de Valera heard the good news about Ulster conscription than he had another emergency on his hands. For the third time during World War II, neutral Dublin was bombed...