EIRE: Worthy Behavior

Prime Minister Eamon de Valera of neutral, nervous Eire last week paid tribute to the manners of his great warring neighbor. Said he:

“Small nations in the path of great powers are generally treated with scant consideration. So far our rights have been in the main respected, and I think it is only fair in this connection to acknowledge that the belligerent nearest us—Great Britain—despite the temptations and urgings of certain propagandists, has not succumbed to them and has not behaved unworthily.”