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domestic politics which plays the game of the Axis.  
There can be little doubt that the I.R.A. is  
being financed and in part directed by German agencies  
in Eire. The money needed for the recent activities  
in Northern Ireland can derive from no other source  
than Germany. The question that concerns us now is whether or not the   
agents directing these subversive efforts will consider the murder of   
American soldiers profitable from their point of view. The  
well-meaning but scmewhat ill-balanced Cardinal  
Primate has recently played into the hands of the  
Germans by referring to American troops in Northern  
Ireland as overrunning the country against the will  
of the Irish Nation. This in the circumstances is  
tantamount to offering the sanction of the Church to  
I.R.A. groups who have already issued a manifesto,  
probably instigated, if not prepared, by German  
   agency, declaring war on America, as well as Britain.    
 
                                                            
 
 
On the occasion of the execution of one Williams,  
who, in company with five other young men, murdered  
a Belfast policeman, a widespread agitation for  
reprieve was conducted with the approval of the  
Eire Government throughout the whole of Ireland. On my own responsibility,   
I protested very strongly to Mr. de Valera that his approval through the   
Censorship of publication of reports of reprieve agitation  
engendered dangerous anti-American and anti-British  
sentiment, the while the Censorship banned publica-  
t ion of any expression of sentiment calculated to  
                          incite