EIRE'S NEUTRALITY.

Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 218, 13 September 1940, Page 6

EIRE'S NEUTRALITY.

Apparently Mr. Doherty. ]fke Repliants and most Irishmen, has a profound memory. Poor old Cromwell! \ erily. the evil that men do lives after them: the good is oft interred with their bono»=. From whom, Mr. Dohertv wants to know, are the British protecting Eire? Simple: from Hitler. And why not, he asks charitably, awribe the bombing of district* in Ireland to the jettisoning of bombs by a German 'plane in difficulties? Certainly. We wouldn't dream of insinuating that it was deliberate. But what were Oerman 'planes flyinjr over Eire for? "Irishmen have proved better friends of the Kmpire than any of the Dominion*."' Now. now. Mr. Dolieriy. don't write faster ilisn von ran think. And you reallv shouldn't talk about the milk of God in lelatioa to the London bombing*. von know, when Mr. de Yalora lias lain awake nt niiht since he became president listening to s ;i ni<* inexorable mill. Perhaps Eire and Mr. ]>oherty will wake up one of these day* to the fact that their tvpe of thinking in progressive countries has ]>een -liouW-r-ring in (ao s;ircoji}iji-jii- for t'i • last 50 > ears. " i. K B.