Hostname: page-component-848d4c4894-wzw2p Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-05-23T10:24:59.631Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

Questions Relating to Irish Neutrality

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2017

Robert R. Wilson
Get access Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Abstract

An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content.
Image of the first page of this content. For PDF version, please use the ‘Save PDF’ preceeding this image.'
Type
Editorial Comment
Information
American Journal of International Law , Volume 36 , Issue 2 , April 1942 , pp. 288 - 291
Copyright
Copyright © American Society of International Law 1942

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

1 Cmd. 5728.

2 See editorial comment, “The Neutrality of Eire”, this Journal, Vol. 34 (1940), pp.125–127.Google Scholar

For a statement on the Irish Labor Party’s endorsement early in the war of the neutrality policy, see the Dublin Evening Mail for April 16, 1940.

3 Keith, A. B., “The War and the Constitution,” Modern Law Review, Vol. IV, pp. 1,16–17 (July, 1940). On the number of Irish young men in England and Scotland affected by the legislation, see the Manchester Guardian Weekly, March 15, 1940, 209.Google Scholar

4 Isaacson v. Durant, 17 Q. B. D. 54 (1886). An exception would be a case where claim to allegiance has been relinquished by treaty.

5 Parl. Deb., 5th Series, Vol. 371, p. 1718.Google Scholar

6 Keith, A. B., loc. cit.Google Scholar

7 Manchester Guardian Weekly, Oct. 4, 1940, p. 236 Google Scholar; Jan. 24, 1941, p. 61.

8 Dublin Evening Mail, April 30, 1940. Twenty-one months later, when the Irish Republican Army was accused in the Dail, on Jan. 28, 1942, of collaborating with German agents dropped in Eire by parachute, Mr. de Valera said that if proof could be obtained the charge would be one of high treason. Manchester Guardian Weekly, Jan. 30, 1942, p. 68.

9 Manchester Guardian Weekly, Jan. 10, 1941, p. 25.Google Scholar

10 Ibid., June 27, 1941, p. 450.Google ScholarPubMed

11 Ibid., Nov. 15, 1940, p. 349; Nov. 22, 1940, p. 375. See, in this connection, the Toronto Daily Star, Nov. 20, 1940, at p. 19.

12 Manchester Guardian Weekly, May 23, 1941, p. 370.Google Scholar

13 Ibid., Jan. 30, 1942, p. 68.

14 Ibid., July 25, 1941, p. 49.

15 The Times (London), Feb. 11, 1942, p. 2; New York Times, Feb. 20, 1942, p. 5.Google ScholarPubMed

16 Arms, W. T. in New York Times, Feb. 8,1942, IX, p. 12 (reporting a relay by the B.B.C.from Dublin).Google Scholar

17 An English observer has tried to draw an analogy between the situation as to Ireland and that in India, in the sense that the form of freedom or self-government in one section of the latter country might be quite unacceptable to other sections. Norman Angell, in New York Times, March 1, 1942, E, 6.