Why De Valera got a bum rap on being pro-Nazi because of U.S Ambassador

Gee Dano you have just shave a few inches from your Giant.

Seano - It was the 'moral fortitude' I questioned...he had it in bucketloads...but I agree he was wrong on many issues, including Ireland.

No more than you could Dano as usual you did not read my post and had your usual knee jerk reaction ""when dealing with Ireland" are so anti Irish you fail to comprehend a simple sentence.

Seano – Churchill was a giant of the 20th century, rightly admired for his courage and fortitude in standing up to the Nazi menace…could you have inspired a nation in 1940? I very much doubt it.

Pillob04, the Swiss had the decourm not to snivel over to the German ambassador's residence to express condolences on behalf of the Irish people on the death of Hitler.

Churchill was a blatant liar when dealing with the Ireland. The man had no moral fortitude.

"Didn't Churchhill offer Devalera an end to partition if Ireland came in on the side of the Allies?" No, he didn't. He considered it and even alluded up to a point but no specific offer was ever made. it wasn't within his power to deliver on such a promise anyway.

RebelForce, NO Churchill could not. Churchill was the creator of the English Terror forces in Ireland during the War for Independence. Churchill was a very evil man.

I will always support Dev on the issue of keeping Ireland out of WW2. No different from Switzerland. Had the Irish gone into the war they would have simply been cannon fodder AGAIN for the English. Dev was right! He cooperated with the allies but was able to keep Ireland out of the war.

He was pro-Roman Catholic Church which is even worse than being Pro-Nazi. Ireland is still paying for Vatican occupation. It was a shame Dev was not executed along with the rest of them.

A load of humus about nothing.

ALSO, Alan Rickman really does look like him!

I'm a little confused (or may be a lot). Not that I believe it or don't, but how was he an English spy? Meaning, who did he spy on? If he agreed, rightly or wrongly, on the partition, who was he spying on? I can understand how some people call him a traitor but I don't get a spy. Also, where does Israel come into it?

dev england greatest spy he's a much honored fella in israel. The Irish slave trade began when James II sold 30,000 Irish prisoners as slaves to the New World. His Proclamation of 1625 required Irish political prisoners be sent overseas and sold to English settlers in the West Indies. By the mid 1600s, the Irish were the main slaves sold to Antigua and Montserrat (70% of the total population of Montserrat were Irish slaves at this time). From 1641 to 1652, over 500,000 Irish were killed by the English and over 300,000 were sold as slaves.

It seems it a little hard to criticize DeValera when we let a flake be the US ambassador so close to the war for so long. Not having to side with England and not having Germans invade to use Ireland as a base, there has to be more to the story.