13 APRIL 1944, Page 14

EIRF—NEUTRAL OR HOSTILE ?

Sta,—" He that is not for us is against us."

Mr. Dulanty in his letter in your issue of March 31st mentions that upwards of 170,000 Irish men and women are now here hard at work in this country "For Britain." I would prefer to assume that most if not all of them are here chiefly for the " Big " money they are able to earn and that many of them feel, as a high Prelate of Eire recently expressed himself, that we are damned lucky they are not fighting on the other side.

He mentions, too, that the value of the foodstuffs Eire has supplied to us during the war is £45,000,000 more than received from this country. Is it not a fact that while very large supplies have reached us from the U.S.A. under " Lease-Lend" all the supplies from Eire are sent us