It is indeed hard for the strong to be just to the weak, but acting justly always has its rewards.

It is the duty of our men to enroll themselves in the national services. We need all our manpower for defence. For the military and... we need a quarter of a million men.

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

If war comes upon us, it will come as a thief in the night

For Irishmen, there is no football game to match rugby and if all our young men played rugby not only would we beat England and Wales but France and the whole lot of them put together.

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