27 december 1936: Eamon de Valera beschuldigt GBR van grondroof tijdens de bezetting van Ierland

"The wilful destruction of Irish industries, the confiscation of the land, the repeated laying waste of the countryside in military campaigns, have made Great Britain not the creditor but the debtor of Ireland. The Land Purchase Annuities themselves arise from the re-purchase of confiscated lands from the successors of the English soldiers and adventurers to whom they were given as rewards for their services to the English Crown in the 16th and the 17th centuries, and their restoration to the successors of the rightful owners."

19370020: 988