BASES IN EIRE
Reported Move By U.S.
Government
(Received March 11, 10 p.m.)
NEW YORK, March 10.
The “Daily News” states that the Administration has opened a drive to obtain bases in Ireland which are considered vital to the protection of the increased flow of aid to Britain in exchange for a loan of 50,000,000 dollars to Ireland. Mr. Frank Aiken, Irish Minister for Defence Co-ordination, is said to be en route to the United States by clipper with the object of obtaining American money and ships to sail to Eire under the Irish Hag. Informed quarters say that bases on Ireland’s south and west coasts would be the only terms on which the United States would advance cash.
A group of prominent .Irish-Ameri-cans has asked Mr. de Valera to permit Britain to use Eire’s western ports to enable her to maintain the “lifeline of civilization.”
“Only if England survives,” they state, “can Ireland be free. We ask you to do this for Irish freedom’s sake, which .our ancestors fought to win.”
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Dominion, Volume 34, Issue 142, 12 March 1941, Page 7
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172BASES IN EIRE Dominion, Volume 34, Issue 142, 12 March 1941, Page 7
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