EIRE: Double Warning

From Minister for Supplies Sean F. Lemass fortnight ago Eire got some very straight and very bad news. Coming at a time when official Dublin buzzed with the report that Sean Russell, the old jailbird head of the long suppressed, British-hating Irish Republican Army, was in Berlin, his words carried an ominous significance. Said he: "Rights alone are poor protection for small states when great empires go to war. Within a few weeks or a few months a crisis will come, and with it the greatest danger to our nation."

Last week long-faced Prime...

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