The years 1934, 1938, 1968 should be recalled in European History
In 1934 Hitler and Poland made a Pact, Fine Gael’s John A Costello voiced approval of Mussolini’s Blackshirts and Germany’s “Hitler-Shirts” and predicted that the Blueshirts would take power in Ireland. Political leaders in Germany and Poland are today united in falsifying history, and the former Fine Gael Leader,would appear to be ignorant of history, judging by his letter in today’s Irish Times.
In 1938 Britain pressured the Czech Government to refuse Soviet help from falling under Nazi control, from which that state was liberated at great cost to the Soviet Union. The 1968 Soviet refusal to let the state become a springboard for a Nato onslaught on Russia should be
understandable, considering Britain’s response to John A Costello’s declaring the Irish republic established in 1937, to being in fact a Republic.
For strategic reasons it was necessary “that some part of Ireland, should remain within His Majesty’s Dominions” said a memorandum from Cabinet Secretary Sir Norman Brook which was initialed by Clement Attlee, who piloted a new Ireland Act through Parliament fraudulently
transferring the Imperial Parliament’s control over every “person, matter and thing ” in the Northeastern Statelet” to the “Parliament of Northern Ireland in 1949.” Edward Heath swept away that Parliament 23 years later, with less fuss than Thatcher abolished the Greater London
Council.
The Russian Ambassador to Ireland, in a magisterial letter in the Irish Times takes issue with its Editorial on the UN veto which he says “reflects a common misconception in Irish political and media circles about the United Nations.”
The Ambassador explains the UN for those political and media circles bribed or browbeaten into forgetting Ireland’s unequalled adherence to the League of Nations Covenant and the United Nations Charter over many decades starting in 1932.
He then explains the long-planned NATO campaign to destroy, Russia, the failure to honour international agreements which provoked the limited military action within Ukranian territory of February 27th,
The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty of 1968 was the culmination of ten-years work by Ireland’s Frank Aiken. .Most nations have signed it.
In 1958 the Soviets advocated the destruction of all such weapons.The Americans advocated limitation. Aiken’s was the first signatory,
in Moscow, at the invitation of the Soviets.
The Ukrainian regime sought to unravel that Treaty and precipated the Russian action of February 27.
I don’t know if diplomats can be given the Freedom of Dublin or Cork or even of Limerick (the site of a broken-Treaty) but it would be a nice thought to have those honours bestowed on His Excellency Yuriy Filatov.
Donal Kennedy London
P..S. On October 5th 1938 Winston Churchill commented in Parliament on the Munich Agreement: “We are in the presence of a disaster of the first magnitude which has befallen Great Britain and France. Do not let us blind ourselves to that. It must now be accepted that all the countries of Central and Eastern Europe will make the best terms they can with the triumphant Nazi power……..Again, what happened in Warsaw? The British and French Ambassadors visited the Foreign Minister, Colonel Beck or sought to
visit him, in order to ask for some mitigation in the harsh measures being pursued against Czechoslovakia about Teschen. The door was shut in their faces, The French Ambassador was not even granted an audience and the British Ambassador was given a curt reply by a
political director. The whole matter is described in the Polish Press as a political indiscretion committed by those two powers, and we are today reading of the sucess of Colonel Beck’s blow. I am not forgetting, I must say, that it is less than twenty years since British and French
bayonets rescued Poland from the bondage of a century and a half.
I think it is indeed a sorry episode in the history of that country, for whose freedom and rights so many of us had and have warm and long sympathy.”
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