Ireland and missiles
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maree Siate pemient be the "Fret ' ocone embroiled in a nuclear holocaust.
Sean MacBride, „a former minister of External Affairs and a Nobel and Lenin Peace Prize winner, has récently launched an attack on what he sees as a trend towards abandonment of Ireland's traditional neutral stance.
He pointed out that by voting with NATO powers at the UN or abstaining when calls were made to outlaw nuclear weapons the Irish government was behaving as if it were a covert supporter of the alliance it refused to join in 1949.
Of course, the fact is that Irish neutrality is a fiction. The Dublin government is mortgaged up to the hilt, totally in debt to the EEC capitalists. As the economic situation gets worse, the last vestiges of the so-called neutrality will fall away.
Already it is the case that those opposing the retreat from neutrality are being branded as "Irish Republican extremists"
Sean MacBride has quite rightly pointed out that NATO participation would make Ireland a prime target - especially if nuclear bases were spread along the coast. The Russian backfire bomber, coming in from mid-Atlantic makes it increasingly . essential that NATO has missile bases in Ireland, It is to be hoped that the Irish people take up the fight of the Greenham Common peace campaigner:
Yours, WILLIE MOLONEY Coventry