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Collector of Injustice. He was a handsome, romantic, cranky figure, that most irritating kind of idealist, a collector of other people's injustices. A poor orphan boy from Ballymena in County Antrim, he joined the British consular service, was stationed in Africa. The Belgian Congo, then being run as a private slave factory by Belgium's King Leopold II, captured his horrified attention. It was a time before Europe knew itself capable of Belsen, and Europe was shocked by Casement's voluminous, angry reports (published in 1904) on torture, floggings and forced labor. Later, he made similar...
...Four of the six counties in Northern Ireland (Antrim, Armagh, Londonderry and Down) have Protestant majorities, but in the two west-border counties of Fermanagh and Tyrone, Catholics form about 55% of the population...
...river from their own, Irishmen from north and south of the Boyne frequently find reason to cross the border. By far the pleasantest way to make the trip is via the Great Northern Railway lines, whose engines snort with brisk Ulster efficiency from the lazy glens of Antrim past the Mountains of Mourne. G.N.R. trains cross the border between Northern Ireland and the south up to 50 times a day. Despite the anguished howls of a clergyman who shouted at its first run: "You are transporting the souls of otherwise good folk to the devil," Irishmen, both Catholic and Protestant...
Discharged from the fire department because of part-time employment with the University Press, Fireman John Anderson of 22 Antrim St., Cambridge, will have the backing of Spencer M. Cowan, director of Harvard's publishing outlet, when he presses his reinstatement appeal...
Elbert M. Antrim, 61, rosy-cheeked business manager, watches the Tribune's fat till...