By keeping the annuities, we could build up a national industry every years as big as the Shannon Scheme.

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.

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.

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

We cannot afford idleness, waste or inefficiency.

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.