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Lord Craigavon, plain-spoken Prime Minister of Northern Ireland, announced that he and Prime Minister Eamon de Valera of independent Eire had been unable to agree on a united defense program for Britain's western back door. Mr. de Valera feared touching off a civil war if, before the Germans came, he let in British soldiers or let the Royal Navy reoccupy its old bases at Berehaven, Lough Swilly and Cobh. The British Army massed troops to rush across the Irish Sea when the hour struck, and R. N. calmly announced new minefields from Scotland to Iceland to Greenland...
Hoping to play his neutrality ace for complete independence of all Ireland, 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...
Trumpeting "we must all be brothers in one holy cause," gaunt Taoiseach (Leader) de Valera last week formed an all-party National Defense Council of three Cabinet Ministers, three Fine Gael representatives, and two Labor Party men. Prime duty of this Council, whose existence would obviate the necessity for secret sessions of the cumbersome Dail, was to formulate policy on national security, advise the Government without taking executive action...
Simultaneously the Government called up all regular troops (7,000) and reservists (30,000), placing the Army on a wartime footing. Premier de Valera announced the start of a recruiting campaign, the formation of Local Security Corps, whose job was to beat off parachute invaders. The Irish Navy (three ships) expected shortly to double its forces. A department store in Dublin's O'Connell Street placed anti-aircraft guns on its roof...
Though warning that Germans were the likeliest invaders, Prime Minister de Valera still clung determinedly to neutrality, hoped that the Irish could keep German submarines out of Cobh harbor, British cruisers away from Lough Swilly. Eire was neutral against everybody...