TRIBUTE TO IRISH

Wairarapa Times-Age, 7 June 1943, Page 4

TRIBUTE TO IRISH

IN SERVICES AND WAR FACTORIES PAID BY SIR STAFFORD CRIPPS. NEW & BROADER ALLIED OUTLOOK. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, June 4. Sir Stafford Cripps (Minister of Aircraft Production) paid a special tribute to Irish men and women, both in the services and in factories, when he spoke in Belfast tonight. Reaffirming that after the Germans had been defeated in Europe Britain would do’ her utmost to defeat Japan, Sir dfcl Cripps said an American Senator need not doubt Britain, because “the people who fought alone and unaided against the whole strength of Germany and Italy after Dunkirk will not fail against Japan.” He stressed as of the greatest significance the fact that while a council of war had been in session in Washington, the Food Conference of the United Nations had been meeting at Hot Springs. “The great lesson is that last time we neglected economic and social problems in favour of political problems,” Sir S. Cripps observed, “we over-emphasised the rights of small nations to the exclusion of the essential economic interdependence of all nations, great and small alike.”