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Carbon County News
Red Lodge, Carbon County, Montana
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Irish Prime Minister Eamon de Valera praised Winston Churchill for not violating Eire's neutrality in WWII to seize sea bases, calling it an advance in international morality, but censured him for abusing Ireland to justify the country's partition.
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Declaring that Churchill's restraint "advanced the cause of international morality," De Valera said: "It is indeed fortunate that Britain's necessity did not reach the point when Mr. Churchill would have acted. All credit to him that he successfully resisted the temptation."
But if De Valera had praise for Churchill, he had censure, too. Answering Churchill's declaration that only North Ireland's furnishing of bases prevented British action against Eire itself, De Valera regretted that the Briton had turned to "abusing a people who have done him no wrong, trying to find in a crisis like the present excuse for continuing the injustice of the separation (of the north and south) of our country."
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de valera praised churchill's restraint in respecting eire's neutrality but censured him for using the crisis to justify ireland's partition.
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De Valera responded to Churchill's criticism of Eire's neutrality in the European conflict by complimenting Churchill for not invading to seize sea bases, stating it advanced international morality, but criticized him for abusing Ireland over the partition of north and south.