William T. Cosgrave

“ To those oppressed with the material problems of today who look for rest from the turmoil of city life, for sport or recreation, for beauty for the eye or a stimulus to the imagination I can, with special gladness, undertake that Ireland, if they visit her, will be found to have lost none of her ancient charm nor an Irish welcome any of its old sincerity. ”

“ The economic stress of recent years has not diminished either our political bonds of mutual respect or our commercial ties of mutual trading interest. Great Britain remains our best customer and the Irish Free State one of the best of Britain's. ”

“ On the other hand British producers for the Irish market may take comfort from the fact that we have suffered less from recent economic depression than many of their other customers. The adverse balance in our visible trade continues to shrink, unemployment amongst us happily has not increased, almost alone among European countries we have been able this year to reduce our contributions to the Unemployment Fund. ”