Original sentence: Conversely, following the suicide of Adolf Hitler, de Valera, following diplomatic protocol, controversially offered condolences to the German ambassador.For a variety of reasons the governments agreed to accept the original Northern Ireland/Southern Ireland delineation and the Dail approved the boundary by a large margin of 71 to 20.However the commission concentrated on economic and topographic factors, rather than the political aspirations of the people who would be living near the new border.The Irish perspective was that this was intended to allow largely nationalist areas of Northern Ireland to join the Free State, and shortly after the establishment of the Free State this commission came into being.The state was nominally neutral during World War II, a period known within the state as the "Emergency", though behind the scenes it worked closely with the Allies; for example the date of the D-Day Normandy landings was decided on the basis of transatlantic weather reports supplied by the Irish state.The state's decision to adopt neutrality was influenced by memories of the Anglo-Irish War and the Civil War, and the state's lack of military preparedness for involvement in a war
Edited sentence: Following the suicide of Adolf Hitler, de Valera, following diplomatic protocol, controversially offered condolences to the German ambassador.For financial reasons the government agreed and the Dail approved the boundary by a large margin of 71 to 20.However the Free State was allowed significantly less input to the commission than they had been led to believe and the commission concentrated on economic and topographic factors, rather than the political aspirations of the people who would be living near the new border.The state was nominally neutral during World War II, known within the state as the "Emergency", though behind the scenes it worked closely with the Allies; for example the date of the D-Day Normandy landings was decided on the basis of transatlantic weather reports supplied by the Irish state.The state's neutrality largely arose from anti-British sentiment provoked by the Anglo-Irish War and the Civil War, and the state's lack of military preparedness for involvement in a war.This was intended to allow largely nationalist areas of Northern Ireland to rejoin the Free State, and shortly after the establishment of the Free State this commission came into being