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De Valera followed the protocols he felt correct for a neutal nation
It was a display of support that no other national leader on earth made. At the time it was defended as a diplomatic gesture (really ?) but was one that not even General Franco was insensitive enough to make or any other neutral nation. It was also 3 months after the hell of Auschwitz had been discovered and a few weeks after Belsen ! What a leader eh !
The Irish government were no friends of the British during WWII, no matter how some try to paint over it.