Dublin, May 26.
The Prime Minister, Mr. Bamon de Valera, told an atidience at Galway yesterday that long range modern aeroplanes brought. Ireland well within the war zone.
Eire, he said, does not want war, but warned "if any military power considered an advantage could be won by brushing aside the rights of the Irish people or their- neutrality st would not hesitate to do it."
Ireland has been endangered particularly during the last few days, he said. "There is but "one safeguard, "namely to be prepared to defend our liberty and to fight' anyone who might try. to invade Ireland," he declared.
"Unfortunately there is. a small group who appear' tò be. meditating treason," the Prime Minister declared. STEEL them as~one~man -that such a state of affairs will not be tolerated and that, instead of being patriots, they will be behaving as nothing but traitors. It took 600 years to get the British out of this country. We don't want them or any others to come in here again."""—United Press.
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