Shocking Suggestion

"I say that aid for Great Britain and the United States is called for on spiritual and moral grounds. . . . We are playing the part of Pontius Pilate, washing our hands and asking what is truth."

Last week the Dail Eireann was electrified by these rip-roaring pro-Ally words from James Mathew Dillon, deputy leader of the minority Fine Gael party and son of the late, great Nationalist leader, John Dillon.

Shocked by such pro-British utterances was Deputy Dillon's Party leader, onetime President William Thomas Cosgrave, who repudiated the speech. Even more shocked was Prime Minister Eamon de Valera. He tried to have the speech censored--to no avail. Eire's censor takes orders from nobody, sometimes censors even Taoiseach de Valera.

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