EIRE'S NEUTRALITY.

Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 228, 25 September 1940, Page 6

EIRE'S NEUTRALITY.

Eire is a part of the Empire, and as such should automatically be at war with the Empire's enemies: but by her attitude of neutrality Eire has flatlv refused to co-operate with Britain. She has no intention of fighting for Britain, any more than in 1916 when de Valera and his friends started a serious rebellion, helped by German arms and monitions, used "to slaughter some 300 British soldiers. If Eire were truly ! neutral, she should not harbour enemies lof the Empire—Germans and Italians with their ambassadors in Dublin, who are no doubt quietly working for the overthrow of Britain. It has been stated that the Germans, both men and. women, swagger along the streets of Dublin as if it already belonged" to UienUi Mr. de Valera ie asking the people of Ulster to join in with Eire, to give up their connection with Britain and become citizens of Eire. To agree to such a proposal would mean a catastrophe for Ulster, and perhaps Britain, too. The Premier of Eire has boasted that the King's name finds no place in Eire's Constitution: how, then, could the loyal people of Ulster allow themselves to (be absorbed in a country of -which Hie Majesty the King is not the acknowledged head? G. W BLAIR.