EIRE NEUTRALITY
"IF HITLER CONQUERED?"
"I understand the desire of Eire to remain neutral" (says An Open Letter to Eamon de Valera in the New Republic, United States).
"Eire experiences a deep longing for peace and has a justifiable horror of war. Tragically enough, it
has been the universal quest for tranquility that the Nazi leader has exploited. He has been enabled to enslave States one by one, as their reluctant neighbours pitifully clung to the hope, that they would be spared. "Never was such a noble aspiration exploited more for such fiendish ends. You know how long Eire's freedom would last if Hitler conquered Britain. Ask the leaders of [ the small, nationsi of the Continent how far a policy of strict neutrality —or even of conciliation—availed them before the greed and might of the Nazis. "There can be no peace for Elire till the cancer of Nazism has been eradicated. What can justice or charity mean to a group of men inspired by no ideals, restrained by no laws, disdainful of the obligations of solemn pacts, dedicated to .naught save their own advancement, cost what it may in death, suffering and tears to the entire human race?
"It is unthinkable that Eire wil fail humanity at this crisis."
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 4, Issue 146, 25 August 1941, Page 2
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209EIRE NEUTRALITY Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 4, Issue 146, 25 August 1941, Page 2
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