BARGAIN WITH FIRE.
1 BASES FOR LOAN. NEW YORK, March 10. The Daily News states that the Administration lias opened a drive to obtain bases in Ireland, which are considered vita.l 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 (Eireann Minister for Defence Co-ordination) is said to he en route to the United States by clipper with the object of obtaining American money and ships to sail to Eire under the Irish flag. Informed quarters say that bases on Ireland’s south and west coasts would he the only terms on which the United States would advance, cash. A group of prominent Irish-Amcri-cans has asked Mr de Valera to permit Britain to use Eire’s western ports to. enable her to maintain the “lifeline of civilisation.” “Onlv if England survives,” tliev state, “can Ireland be free. We ash von to do this for Irish freedom’s sake, which our ancestors fought to win.”
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LXI, Issue 87, 12 March 1941, Page 7
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166BARGAIN WITH FIRE. Manawatu Standard, Volume LXI, Issue 87, 12 March 1941, Page 7
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