01-22-2007, 11:42 PM
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On the other hand:
Quote:
Eamon de Valera's Speech on Irish Neutrality
(December 12, 1941)
The policy of the state remains unchanged. We can only be friendly neutral. From the moment this war began, there was, for this state, only one policy possible, neutrality. Our circumstances, our history, the incompleteness of our national freedom through the partition of our country, made any other policy impossible. Any other policy would have divided our people and for a divided nation to fling itself into this war would have been to commit suicide. When we adopted the policy of neutrality, we had no illusions about it. We knew the difficulties and dangers. We are fully aware that, in a world at war, each set of belligerents is over ready to regard those who are not with them as against them; but the course we have followed is a just course.
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Translation: Lotsa luck western civilization, we're sitting this out. (Jake - 50% irish descent).
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