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Last week long-faced Prime Minister Eamon de Valera underlined his subordinate's words with the grave admission that one crisis was already at hand: "The belligerents in blockading each other are blockading us. We have not a moment to lose in preparing for the worst in regard to all those supplies that come to us from abroad." Then he announced that gasoline would be unobtainable by private motorists during the month of February, that tea rations would be cut onefourth, that wheat reserves would last barely until the next harvest, that private coal consumption would be reduced...
...victim jammed between two gunmen in a death car with pistols prodding his ribs ever felt more conscious of his position than did Eamon de Valera last week...
Panicky emergency measures by the De Valera Government banned street and place signs visible from trains, cars or low-flying planes, dimmed already shaded street lights in Dublin, which Britain declared were being used by Nazi raiders as guiding beacons...
...there was hope among the enemies of Adolf Hitler last week, it was a hope aimed audibly and obviously across the Atlantic. Most eloquent appeal to the U. S. was that of Eire's Prime Minister Eamon de Valera. Though Eire still preferred hunger or war to giving Britain bases from which to strengthen food convoys to Britain (and Eire),* though there was little chance that the U. S. could answer the appeal, it nevertheless summed up the disruptions even to neutral nations in a world at war: "Many Irish men and women reside in Britain, and the deaths...
...Irish didn't fight for over 700 years for their survival as a nation in order now to embark on a policy which would invite annihilation. Consequently, Mr. de Valera's conscience is clear when he says "the Irish people will defend their rights in regard to these ports against whoever shall attack them...