On this day January 31 1942

Mr J.M. Andrews,Prime Minster of Northern Ireland.
In a statement yesterday Mr Andrews said: 'Mr de Valera has again dragged into the arena of political controversy the constitutional status of Northern Ireland as laid down by the Goverment of Ireland Act,1920. By that Act,the Parliament of Northern Ireland was established. Therefore,Mr de Valera has no right to interfere in Northern Ireland affairs and no claim to sovereignty over this part of the UK.

It was Mr de Valera and those associated with him who were responsible for the separation of Eire from the UK. It is they who, by their policy and actions have widened the gulf. The presence of American forces in Northern Ireland to which Mr de Valera objects is part of a vast strategic plan for the defeat of the Axis powers. Therefore these troops are doubly welcome in our territory and we are proud to be associated with them in the war. Mr de Valera,as head of the goverment of a neighbouring neutral state,evidently resents their arrival. No doubt he would have prevented it if he could,just as he has denied to Britain and the US the use of naval bases in Eire. This folly has seriously hampered the British Navy in the Battle of the Atlantic and has meant the sacrifice of thousands of gallant lives. Eire is no less in danger of invasions by Germany than is the UK. If such an attack were made the people of Eire would be glad of any help they could secure.

Mixed reaction in Derry
Meanwhile the Mayor of Derry Senator Simmons is getting up from his sick bed to welcome US officers. In his reply to what he describes as Mr de Valera's 'impudent protest' against the landing of American troops in N.I. he states: 'The UK had the right to bring troops to any part of its territory. Mr de Valera's protest coming from a neutral source,cannot be tolerated and is utterly in bad taste.'

Mr Patrick Maxwell,Nationalist MP for Foyle,takes the opposite view,stating in an interview: 'As far as we are concerned,the landing of the Americans in Northern Ireland is the same as the landing of the Germans in Norway. I support Mr de Valera wholeheartedly. We shall ignore the Americans forces as far as possible. There is nothing physically we can do to throw them out or we would do so. ''We consider the landing of American troops is an aggression against the Irish nation.

These reports from the war, show the sort of vermin that the scum really are.

Another piece from the WW2 years IN Mon Feb 21 2011

On this day February 21 1942

Shooting Of Prison Warder

The shooting dead of prison warder Thomas Walker by gunmen in Durham Street,Belfast a fortnight ago was strongly condemned by Most Rev Dr Mageean,Bishop of Down and Connor in St Peters Church yesterday.

Human life is sacred and God has hedged it around with His command ''Thou shalt not kill,''

''The supreme public authority in (is?) the state,and this authority alone,has the power of life and death. This particular murder was not perpetrated in the heat of sudden passion. It had no extenuating circumstances;it was cold and calculated. Who was responsible for it I do not know.and I assume that no one here had any hand or part in it.''

Thats a part of the report. It shows that the IRA were probably still at their dirty work while the people of Belfast and Ulster were being bombed by the Nazis. The Bishop did condemn this. He appears too to have recognisedf the state as being the authority to deal with this,though I don't understand the use of the word 'in' rather than 'is' or 'is in the state'

I think he was assuming too much when he mentioned the perpetuators not being in the congregation. Maybe he said that more in hope than reality.

Ex-German Chancellor unhurt in bomb attack
Ankara,Tuesday

Von Papen,the German Ambassador and his wife were thrown to the ground but unhurt when a bomb exploded only 18 yards from them yesterday. Shortly after a man was seen in the Boulevard Ataturk carrying some object (presumably the bomb),wrapped in rags,there was an explosion. The bomber was killed. The fact that the explosion occurred close to the German Ambassasor has led the authorities seriously to consider the probability that the act was deliberately against Von Papen.

A Catholic aristocrat,Franz von Papen (1879-1969) led the Catholic Centre Party in the last days of democratic Germany before the rise of Hitler. A favourite of President Hindenburg,he became chancellor and was instrumental in bringing Hitler to power in 1933. Oaoen wrongly believed that the Nazi leader could be controlled. As Hitler's vice-chancellor in 1934,he signed a Concordat with the Pope,later serving as German ambassador to Turkey.

He stood trial at Nuremburg in 1945 but was aquitted of war crimes.

I wonder why. The right contacts maybe.

Strange one this.

Stormont Policy Criticised

The Minister of Labour was again attacked for his policy of sending boys and girls from the North to work in England when Opposition members held the floor at the Adjourment in Stormont yesterday.

Mr Jack Beattie (Labour) said the unfortunate boys and girls were being compelled to go to England to work and the Minster apparently intended to continue the policy. ''If you don't go you must starve'.'' Little had been done to provide work for them at home. Was the Minister afraid to get mills and factories going in case another goverment should take them over?

Mr Tommy Henderson (Independent Unionist,Shankill) said the people were being shipped like cattle. It was inhuman and the whole policy was entirely foreign to the Ulster people. No-one wanted to go to England but the Minister was heartless. The work should be here for them. People from over the border were coming in to take jobs here while the Ulster people were being shipped out.

Shipping Ulstermen to England to work, yet the jobs they left behind taken by the Irish. Regardless of the war time circumstances not something that’s in anyway beneficial to our Nation.

I read that Andrews complained to Churchill during the war when he formed the Irish Brigade, he objected to the name as at that time Eire was neutral but Churchill insisted on it and so they were formed.

Yes. We must take it ouside our own confines to the mainland and elswhere. PP is a man who has perhaps more knowledge of our situation than those who live in Ulster. There are people out there who will at least give us a hearing. Who are prepared to listen to another side of the story, and maybe then even become a supporter of our position. If not, at least an understanding of it. But to do this we need to educate our people especially our young people and especially those young people who have a hunger to learn about their history,culture and traditions,and who also have a sincere belief in these things and will not be waylaid on to a 'self-promoting' agenda and use it for their own ends. True patriots are what is needed. ''Men whom the spoils of office'' etc