Unemployment is due to the large import of goods from Britain and other countries. The Government haven't used the powers which they have for the benefit of the country.
Eamon de ValeraHere, in Cork district, you have in combination all the dangers which war can inflict.
Eamon de ValeraMr. Churchill is proud of Britain's stand alone, after France had fallen and before America entered the War.
Eamon de ValeraAn 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.
Eamon de Valera