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of their essential dependence On Britain for markets, for  
supplies, for security. If Mr. de Valera's doctrine of  
self-sufficiency, which has been injected into the rising gen-  
eration of Irishmen, can be shown to be fallacious, a very  
valuable lesson looking to a future betterment of relations  
between the two countries will have been imparted. My con-  
viction is that from the British point of view, and also from  
the American viewpoint, when we provide essential materials  
the fact should be so publiclined that the truth of origin of these   
supplies is manifest. Otherwise, the Irish Government  
will continue, as it is now doing and has done, to claim credit  
with the people for everything obtained. One of the favorite  
attitudes of the Irish Ministers in their weekend political  
addresses in their respective districts is to point with pride  
to the success of the Government in achieving this or that.  
Just how this can be specified I do not pretend to say, but  
only statements made by responsible and conspicuous public  
officials are carried in the Irish newspapers.. The censorship  
will undoubtedly suppress any ordinary, news item accounting for  
the origin of supplies. I would recommend this, not with the  
intention of overthrowing Mr. de Valera's Government but with  
the hope that it might force him and his associates to liquidate  
their own misleading statements. There is every reason to con-  
gratulate the British Government on the fact that an Irish  
Government is now governing Ireland and coping with the unrest  
and underground revolution that seems to be the normal condition  
of the island. Although seven or eight hundred of the key men  
of the revolutionary I.R.A. are now in jail, their activities  
are undiminished and there is reason to believe that one Stephen  
Nayes, who recently escaped from a kidnapped confinement by I.R.A.  
captors, made a confession which, although under duress, may  
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