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...take the Allied side in World War II. Very flatly, Eire said no. That much the Irish, American and British man in the street learned last week. There was only a juicy hint of the scene that was acted when Washington's demand reached the proper desk in Dublin...
Presumably, peppery U.S. Minister David Gray (uncle, by marriage, to Eleanor Roosevelt Roosevelt) stepped down a corridor in Dublin's Leinster House, entered Prime Minister Eamon de Valera's office. Presumably, gaunt, U.S.-born "Dev" scanned the note handed him, hopped good & mad from his chair, sputtering more sparks than the fire on his hearth...
Washington: Axis agents, working through the German legation and the Japanese consulate in Dublin, "enjoy almost unrestricted opportunity" for spying on Allied troop movements in Britain...
...this and other patrols Lieut. Lakin sank 15 ships totaling about 25,000 tons. He took three prisonsers - two Germans and a French-trained dog he decided to call Pétain. All three came off the Sainte Marguérite II, which Lieut. Lakin described as "built in Dublin, sold to the French, seized by the Germans, sunk by me." Once Lieut. Lakin was under continuous attack by two destroyers for 38 hours...
Last month Jerome Connor vanished for the last time. At the age of 67, in a Dublin slum, he died. Last week, Jerome Connor's friends formed a committee to have his work completed by another sculptor in order to "save Ireland's honor...