NEUTRAL EIRE
I *— "A censorship, stricter than its British counterpart, sees to it that nothing is published in Eire which nfight annoy any belligerent; and our newspapers devote their leading articles to such safe topics as 'More Tillage' or 'Petrol Restrictions.' No one tells us of the evil things Britain fights'—the exploitation of conquered nations, the cold cruelty, the contempt for all spiritual value". No one tells us (for it might be 'unneutral') of Poland under the Nazi lash, of the forced labour, the closing of schools, universities and • churches, expropriation on a scale that recalls Cromwell's famous alternative: 'Hell or Connaught,' or , I the murder of priests and compulsory suspension of the sacraments. Such a story might strike home and i awaken inconvenient anger. Thus, ; for of our people this is • just another of England's many J wars, presumably a move in the old ■ i game of power politics, and. anyway, . i "no affair of ours.' " —Mr. Hugh A. ' Law in tha "Dedix Telegraph."
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXII, Issue 123, 27 May 1941, Page 8
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165NEUTRAL EIRE Auckland Star, Volume LXXII, Issue 123, 27 May 1941, Page 8
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