TRUSTED JOURNALISM SINCE 1859? – by Donal Kennedy
Immediately under its title, THE IRISH TIMES carries the boast “Trusted Journalism Since 1859.”
Trusted by whom?
It was ignored by all but a small minority in Ireland for the first 60 years of the 20th Century.
It generally supported the Union of Ireland with Britain or wallowed in nostalgia for it. It was
murderously hostile to workers’ interests.
The Irish Labour Party supported Fianna Fail during the latter party’s first term in Government
1932-1933,
When Fianna Fail stood again, in February 1933, the Irish Times editorially warned that its
return to power would be a calamity for Ireland. The electorate, in its folly kept Fianna Fail
in office for another 15 years and most of the 75 years after that.
In March 1933 in an Editorial the Irish Times hailed “Herr Hitler’s Way.” It was particularly
happy with Hitler’s crushing of Socialists. It admitted that Herr Hitler was a rough diamond
but excused his savagery, saying “you can’t make Omelettes without Breaking Eggs.”
Today THE IRISH TIMES is back in Hell’s Kitchen. This time Fianna Fail and Sinn Fein
and virtually the whole of the Oireachtas are with them
The EU has falsified European history, blaming the Soviet Union, which rescued much of
Europe from NAZI tyranny for the Second World War.
For years Maxim Litvinov of the Soviet Union was the most consistent advocate of international
disarmament and peace and he was the architect of the Litvinov Protocol agreed to by several nations, including Poland.
In 1934 Poland signed a non-aggression pact with the Nazis and in 1938 joined with them in
the dismemberment of Czechoslovakia when Britain ratted on her obligations.
The Poles and the Germans today are in denial of these key facts
.
Stalin replaced Litvinov, originally named named Finkelstein, a thoroughly Good Egg, a real Mensch,as his Commissar for Foreign Affairs, with Molotov.
In 1940 Molotov made a pact with Ribbentrop. Neither Stalin nor Molotov were Gentlemen,
unlike Ribbentrop, the toast of Lord Londonderry and fashionable London Society.
Bet you never saw these facts mentioned in the Irish TImes?
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