17 NOVEMBER 1944, Page 14

THE LAST INVADER

SIR,—Your gibes at Irish neutrality are not helpful. Our High Com- missioner gave you facts and figures. You repeatedly ignore them but have never refuted them. You say we owe to the British our freedom from invasion. Probably, but do we not also owe to the British our liability to invasion? I hate to admit it, but few think us worth invading just for ourselves. Who, since Strongbow, of our many invaders paid

us this compliment?—Yours faithfully, FORMER INVADER.