De Valera VS Churchill (2/6)

In his Victory in Europe Day radio broadcast (May, 1945), British Prime Minister Winston Churchill launched a strong attack on the Irish governments policy of neutrality, while being hurtful to the Irish people as a whole .

De Valeras reply, also in a radio broadcast, won widespread respect and praise in Ireland from even his staunchest opponents.

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• IRA
• ireland
• devalera
• churchill

[jratt2]

@ChristianPatriarchy I'm not a Catholic, but I'll pass on your diagnosis to my Catholic countrymen. They'll be thrilled, I'm sure, especially by your Christian love.

[jratt2]

@garethella Typical faux self-righteous anti-Irish bile from a simian with a keyboard. For a full account of how your country provided jobs and new identities former Nazis, read David Cesarani's 'Justice Delayed - How Britain became a refuge for Nazi war criminals". Its shocking. Once you have come to terms with your hypocrisy, you can return here and acknowledge all the ways Eire assisted your country during WW2 you ungrateful commoner and apologise for insulting me with your ignorance.

[garethella]

@jratt2 ,well you gave them houses and jobs and new identities, you helped them hide , with your bosom buds in the catholic church, your "country" should feel a deep sense of shame, which of course it wont , you irish always try and justify your reprehensible actions, how absolutely nauseating, all im saying is you should apologise NOW.

[jratt2]

@garethella Okay...

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Dev and his 'neutral' republican cohorts deserve to die in auschwitz, helping the nazis win the battle of the Atlantic'...

UK won the Battle of the Atlantic and the Eire did not help the Nazis, you commoner.

Neutrality is a democratic entitlement. If other countries were engaged in a 'war for democracy', it should be accepted that Irish neutrality was the price of democracy. But YOU want to gas them, like a Nazi.

Apologise my arse.

[garethella]

@jratt2 , what are you talking about you imbecile, read it again and apologise to me in a grovelling fashion, and chewing gum is an activity only a commoner would partake.

[jratt2]

@garethella Imagine being British and not knowing that the allies actually WON the Battle of the Atlantic against the Nazis and at the same time suggesting the neutral Irish should have been gassed - a war crime. I bet you can't even walk and chew gum at the same time.

[garethella]

Dev and his 'neutral' republican cohorts deserve to die in auschwitz, helping the nazis win the battle of the Atlantic, eternal shame on them, to the Irishmen who fought for freedom, we salute you, your battle against nazis in europe and sympathisers in Ireland is truly magnificent.

[lllIIIIIIlll]

@DonegalRaymie201 Stray? What a load of rubbish they targeted a train station in Dublin and would have pounded cities across Ireland to terrorise the public and the government in Dublin into submission had they joined with the Allies.

[DonegalRaymie201]

@lllIIIIIIlll

The few stray bombs that fell on North Strand in Dublin, were claimed to be accidental by the Luftwaffe. They paid compensation for it!

Try reading what I already wrote: "You only have to look at our nearest neighbour, Scotland, to see how much bombing we would have received." Glasgow alone had more than half of all Scots casualties. Any idea why & what it & Belfast have in common?

And the Blitz was over by June '41 anyway!

[lllIIIIIIlll]

@DonegalRaymie201 You said strategic and then said Belfast was the only target when they bombed Dublin also amonst other places. Belfast was the main target but they would have bombed other Irish cities heavily if Eire joined the war as punishment and you know it. They bombed Dublin for Éire accepting refugees from Belfast. They would have done alot more had Ireland not been neutral.