FOUR YEARS OF WAR
'STILL TO BE EXPECTED ' Mr De Valera Warns Eire [Aust. & N.Z. Cable Assn.] (Rec. 8.20) DUBLIN, Feb. 3. “Eire will face a considerable shortage of bread before the next harvest,” said Mr De Valera, Eire President, in the course of a speech. He urged the Eire farmers to increase their production so that the country shall not be; held up to ransom because of an acute scarcity. “It would appear that a real war struggle is only beginning,” he said. “He would be a fool who planned for less than four years as far as the emergency facing Eire is concerned. “Eire is becoming more and more cut off' from the world.. If one of the belligerents were to attack Eire, the other would almost certainly join in, and we ourselves would also take a hand.” . Eire, he added, required a quarter of a million fully-tramed soldiers. '
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Grey River Argus, 5 February 1942, Page 5
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151FOUR YEARS OF WAR Grey River Argus, 5 February 1942, Page 5
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