Irish America appalled by De Valera's visit to German minister after Hitler's death

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

45% : "Margaret Mary Turner, who claimed her views were shared by all Irish-American mothers, wrote: "We, my people, the Healys, Sullivans and Moynihans and my husband's folks the Burneses would have denounced him [de Valera] with their last breath for daring to call on the German Legation in Ireland and express his sympathy on Hitler's death."One Massachusetts congressman Henry Shattuck, who had endowed the chair of Celtic Studies at Harvard University, suggested that Ireland should be barred from joining the United Nations because of de Valera's actions.

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