We hope that the plain people - the labourers and small farmers - will take this opportunity of coming together and working out the National programme.

If liberty is not entire it is not liberty.

God has been pleased to save us during the years of war that have already passed. We pray that He may be pleased to save us to the end. But we must do our part.

Since this war began our sympathy has gone out to all the suffering people who have been dragged into it. Further hundreds of millions have become involved since I spoke at Limerick fortnight ago.

Partition is after all only an old fortress of crumbled masonry - held together with the plaster of fiction.

An independent Ireland would see its own independence in jeopardy the moment it saw the independence of Britain seriously threatened. Mutual self-interest would make the peoples of these two islands, if both independent, the closest possible allies in a moment of real national danger to either.

Mr. Churchill is proud of Britain's stand alone, after France had fallen and before America entered the War.