EIRE’S NEUTRALITY
“BRITAIN RESPECTS HER # INDEPENDENCE ” (8.0. W.) RUGBY. May 6. Referring to Eire’s neutrality in a speech to the Royal Empire Society, the Minister for Information (Mr A. Duff Cooper) said: “It is an example and proof to the world of the true independence of our Dominions. However much we suffer - from it—and deeply and disastrously we suffer from it—we' respect the independence of Eire and allow her to remain neutral while we are fighting for our lives “That shows that Britain abides by her word, and that the Statute of Westminster is not a scrap of paper which you c?n tear up, but a bond we have entered into and by which we shall abide.” .... , Mr Cooper referred also to the work of the British Broadcasting Corporation in combating Nazi diplomacy. “They were very busy talking to Jugoslavia after the Government had signed the pact with Germany,’ he said. “We took hours away frpm other countries to talk to Jugoslavia. Day and ' night we turned on the best people we could find, among them Mr L. S. Amery, the Secretary of State for India. . . “We hope these efforts may have had something to do with coup d’etat, but we do not claim all the credit for it, and we certainly shall not get it.” _______
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Press, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23323, 8 May 1941, Page 10
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