EIRE’S NEUTRALITY

Grey River Argus, 13 December 1940, Page 8

EIRE’S NEUTRALITY

i — «*«• MR. DE VALERA’S ASSURANCE. * [Aus. & N.Z. Cable Assn.] DUBLIN. December 11. Mr. De Valera told the Associated Press: Great Britain is wrong to suggest that there is any hostility to Britain in our attitude towards the war. Unfortunately, I think there is considerable unjustifiable hostility in the tone of the British Press, towards Eire. 455 ENEMY ALIENS IN EIRE.

RUGBY, December 11. In a written answer to a Parliamentary question, the Secretary of State for the Dominions (Lord Cranborne) said he understood that the number of Germans living in Eire was 306, of whom 141 were refugees and 30 were members of a religious order. The number of Italians was 149. His information was that the official staff of the German Legation in Dublin consisted of six persons and a typist, and the Italian Legation consists of five persons and a typist.