London, Nov. 8.
Lord Craigavon, Premier of Northern Ireland, Inst hight made a state-mont deploring the refusal voiced by Mr., Eamon de Valera, Prime Minister ire, to grant Britain port faci ties in Bite, "However deeply the attitude of 1 Hire Government may be deplored," said Lord Craigavon, "none who has felosely studied each' successive stage In the policy of Southern Ireland can be in the least surprised. It has been evident all along that Eire, while acfeepting concession after concession from Great Britain, intended to give nothing in return, "In the midst of a war which the Empire is Mghting for its existence Eire claims neutrality, even. though by doing so she is creating dimeulties for the one power to whom she ow her preservation, Mr. de Valera's 21 nouncement marks the culminating point ina process which we in the berth have foreseen for many years
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