Anglo-Irish defense agreement
United Kingdom-Ireland [1938]
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de Valera
- In Eamon de Valera: Rise to power
This culminated in the Anglo-Irish defense agreement of April 1938, whereby Britain relinquished the naval bases of Cobh, Berehaven, and Lough Swilly (retained in a defense annex to the 1921 treaty), and in complementary finance and trade treaties that ended the economic war. This made possible de Valera’s proclamation…
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