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.

We cannot afford idleness, waste or inefficiency.

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.

The economic and social problems would tend to become, like the military situation, more and more difficult as time went on and we became more and more isolated.

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

If there is to be any hope of prosperity for this country it is by reversing that policy which made us simply the kitchen garden for supplying the British with cheap food.