Word: irelander
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sixty-six members of the Yale faculty recently sent a petition similar to that circulated at Harvard, to the President of the United States Senate and to the Speaker of the House of Representatives, opposing any Congressional action bearing upon the relations of Great Britain and Ireland...
...Irish cause has always commanded sympathy in this country; and it always will, so long as Ireland retains any legitimate grievance against the Power which governs...
...same time it is noticeable that the Irish cause has not been very much raised in the public esteem by the events of the last few months. The stories of cattle-running outrage, and murder in Ireland may not all be true some of them, as the Irish leaders claim, may have been inspired by sources hostile to Ireland's freedom. But it is an ancient proverb that where there is such a prodigious cloud of smoke, there is sure to be a certain amount of fire. The reports from Ireland do not seem to indicate that the Irish people...
...large majority of these acts are done by irresponsible persons. The undignified invasion of the Capitol was promptly disavowed by the headquarters of the Friends of Irish Freedom; but the unpleasant effect remains. In Ireland the responsible leaders of the movement for freedom, and the authorities of the Church, have joined in reprobating the campaign of organized terrorism by which certain elements hope to gain their ends. But in spite of the more dignified attitude of some leaders, the acts continue. Affairs of this sort, even when the authors are acting on their own initiative, are bound to cast discredit...
...eighteen-sixty, Queen Victoria and Abraham Lincoln joined to prevent war between England and America over Trent affair. Two countries look to you to do the same today by preventing passage of Mason Resolution. Preservation of Anglo-American peace best security for liberties of Ireland and peace of world...