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...Dev: There are only twelve such suspects in Eire; they are in prison. "It is doubtful if any other country can show such a record of . . . vigilance...
...Dev: "Impossible." It would be "the first step toward...
...Dev: "Eire's stand is the logical consequence of Irish history and of the forced partition of national territory...
...Plainly Dev and Eire had not budged from their traditional Anglophobic bomb shelter. Having dispatched his note, Dev mobilized Eire's army (30,000 men), alerted the militia (200,000 men), ordered bridges mined, airfields double-guarded against an imagined invasion threat...
Only one concession would budge Dev and Eire: British blessing on a forcible union of Catholic Eire and Protestant Northern Ireland. But Britain was less than ever in a mood to hand over its fighting comrades of North Ireland to uncooperative Eire. Instead, London sent Dublin a note supporting the U.S., ordered a strict curb on travel between Eire and Britain. Under study might be the withdrawal of other long-granted concessions: shipments to Eire of Canadian wheat, British coal...