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nter-island trade. Not unexpectedly, the British appear relu
 
        AMERICAN AND BRITISH P0LICY TOWARD IRELAND.         
 
                                                            
 
 
 It grows clearer as time passes that with regard to winning the war
the single vital question is the importance of Irish bases and of Irish
Fifth Column agencies operating on Eire soil. Our President appreciates
this, but the British view is apparently confused. The Prime Minister I
suspect sees the matter as does the President, but many of his
Ministers hesitate to recognize Eire as a foreign power exercising a
neutrality unfavorable to the war effort, and refusing to contribute to
the common safety or even to con-  
. My own recommendation is that for the present we should at
 
                                                            
 
 
ters as air communications and trade interchanges. But these
 
                           D. G.                            
 
                 Dublin, October 10, 1942.