BRITAIN KEEPS HER WORD
Independence Of Eire Respected
(Rec. 8.50 pm.) RUGBY, May 6. Referring to Eire’s neutrality in a speech to the Royal Empire Society, the Minister of 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, disastrously we suffer from It—we respect the independence of the people of Eire and allow them 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 can tear up, but a bond we have entered into and by which we shall abide." Mr Duff Cooper referred also to the work of the 8.8. C. in combating Nazi diplomacy. “They were very busy talking to Yugoslavia after the Government had signed the pact with Germany. We took hours away from other countries to talk to Yugoslavia. Day and night we turned on the best people we could find, among them Mr L. C. M. s. Amery (Secretary of State for India). We hope that these efforts may have had something to do with the coup d’etat, but we don’t claim all the credit for it and we certainly shall not get it."
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXLIX, Issue 21957, 8 May 1941, Page 5
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