Michael Russell, author of the Stefan Gillespie WWII series, on Ireland’s increasingly desperate diplomatic dance
As a shameful consequence, he made it impossible for Jews seeking to exit Germany, even with strong Irish connections, to get Irish visas. He didn’t stop there. Information about these Jews, and much else, went straight to the Nazis. Dublin was blind or indifferent. Only on the eve of war did Walshe sack Bewley.He was succeeded by William Warnock, through heady days of German invulnerability to Stalingrad and North Africa.
‘Whole Legation quarter destroyed… Most of city in ruins. I cannot describe chaos… Please ask my parents to send shirts, heavy underwear and socks.’ In Rome, by 1943, Michael MacWhite had no idea even what government he was speaking to. Italy had surrendered. There was an anti-fascist regime in the south. Hitler had set up a puppet state for Mussolini in the north. Rome was occupied. In a telegram, MacWhite details the clearing of the city’s Jewish Ghetto. He is under no illusions what will happen to the Jews. From Dublin there was no response. Yet when American bombs fell on Rome, de Valera sent a rare protest to the Allies.
There was another Minister to a fascist regime, Leopold Kerney in Spain. While Franco kept out of the war, Kerney wasn’t content in his backwater. He played a part, before the war, in negotiating the release of Frank Ryan, ex-IRA leader and International Brigade commander, from a Spanish gaol, at the price of handing him to German Intelligence. And Kerney’s links to German interests remained ambiguous. In 1943 Irish Intelligence investigated him in Madrid.
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