De Valera VS Churchill (6/6)

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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• devalera
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[joeyjoejoe6w]

@ChristianPatriarchy no they just resulted in people being stripped of their land and in one million starving to death and another two emigrating due to starvation while food livestock grain were all being exported to England! SHAME!!

[jratt2]

I would have loved to have been a fly on the wall at that Downing Street dinner between Churchill and Dev in 1953.

[Tonyo1221]

@ragrunner1 Tens of thousands of Irish men went to Britain and signed up to the British army and fought in the war. These men were and remain Irish heroes who paid the ultimate sacrafice for British, Irish and European freedom. And remember Sweden, Switzerland, Denmark and others also remained neutral. Churchill was the archetect of his own problems in relation to not getting Ireland on board offically and his promises on Irish unity were probably undeliverable and certainly not to be trusted.

[Tonyo1221]

Tens of thousands of Irish men went to Britain and signed up to the British army and fought in the war regardless. These men were and remain Irish heroes who paid the ultimate sacrafice for British, Irish and European freedom. And remember Sweden, Switzerland, Denmark and others also remained neutral. Churchill was the archetect of his own problems in relation to not getting Ireland on board offically and his promises on Irish unity were probably undeliverable and certainly not to be trusted.

[DonegalRaymie201]

Interesting stuff! Makes you at least think!