British Nationalism Quotes
It did sweep the polls. The Protestant Unionists won 40 seats; Sinn Fein and the Nationaists won only 6 each.
This quotation shows the level of denial that De Valera and other Irish leaders were in over Nazi Germany. See {639721} for other Irish Free State denial. Over 70,000 Irishmen and women rejected the moral stand of their government, and volunteered for the British Army to the great distress of the Free State leaders like De Valera.