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...many words brought into prominence by the war is "propaganda" with its various connotations. In 1947, the term conjured up visions of innumerable lurking Teutions, spying upon our defenses and undermining society in general. Nowadays it suggests Sinn Fein. Bolshovism, or the Loyal Coalition. Education, industry, polities, almost every phase of our national life is disturbed by propaganda of one sort or another. Some of it is instigated from abroad, but most of it originates with "true-hearted American citizens...
...whether both halves of the German worm are not crawling towards the United States. The answer to the question becomes apparent when the leader of such an organization attempts, as did von Mach, to use the American Legion as a connecting link between the Teuton and the Sinn Fein. It is obvious that any liaison between Germany and Ireland can have but one purpose: to sever the present friendly relations between Great Britain and the United States. It would be dangerous in the extreme to allow such a plan to materialize. Commander Galbraith, head of the American Legion...
...appears that, not content with so passive a campaign, the "President" has encouraged and even secretly inaugurated, societies that are avowedly and actively hostile to the British government. The extend to which these followers of the Sinn Fein have been wrought up was undeniably demonstrated by the Union Club incident in New York--an incident constituting a direct insult to Great Britain and American citizens as well. When De Valera's activities, or those of his immediate adjutants, induce such proceedings, it is time that those--activities should be stopped...
Aside from all contentions as to the right or wrong of the Sinn Fein movement and "free Ireland", the group of Irish sympathisers who attacked the New York Union Club, demanding that the British flag which was flying in celebration of the Pilgrim Tercentenary, be furled, made a grave mistake. While such an act cannot possibly hurt England, or England's honor, it may, however, easily bring harm to the Irish themselves. Such a demonstration of mob violence is only too likely to prove a boomerang. A people which loses its head and charges at an unprovocative flag like...
...tactics from Ireland to America. The Union Club was within its absolute legal and moral rights in hanging out the French, English and American flags; yet the Irish, who are fighting for rights of their own, would subordinate American privileges to their own impulsive whims. No, if the Sinn Fein is to succeed in enlisting the support of our citizens it must prove in a more orderly and reasonable fashion the righteousness of its cause and the strength of its morale...