POLICY OF EIRE
CRITICISED BY LORD CRAIGAVON READINESS TO CO-OPERATE IN DEFENCE. IN COMMON LOYALTY TO EMPIRE. (By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright) LONDON, June 29. The Premier of Northern Ireland, Lord Craigavon, in a speech in County Down, said if an allIreland Parliament had been in existence at the outbreak of the war Britain would have been faced with all-lreland neutrality and British troops would have been unable to land on Irish soil. “A member of the Dail indicated last Wednesday that Mr de Valera was again blackmailing the British Government to end the partition. It was a sinister sign that something serious was afoot,” Lord Craigavon said. “I wish, therefore, to declare that I will not be a party to any change in the Constitution of Northern Ireland, though I am willing to co-operate with Mr de Valera in matters of defence, provided that he takes a stand beside the British Empire, clears out the German and Italian representatives from Eire, and undertakes not to raise any issue of a constitutional nature.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 1 July 1940, Page 7
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172POLICY OF EIRE Wairarapa Times-Age, 1 July 1940, Page 7
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