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is position generally, he has shown his old-time skill and a
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 somewhat 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
ot prepared, by German agency, declaring war on America, as
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 antiAmerican and anti-British sentiment, the while the
Censorship banned publication of any expression of sentiment calculated
to incite anti-German feeling. I pointed out that this was not that
benevolent neutrality which he had promised after Pearl
Harbor. He answered naively, "We would be fools to permit any-
e not neutral in feeling as long as the "enemy" (Britain) re
hoodlum sympathizers compelled the closing of all shops and