Word: irelander
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Answering a question as to why the League did not interfere in the civil war in Ireland: "The League of Nations exists necessarily not to deal with internal affairs, however deplorable, however dangerous they may be. ... At the same time- for I want to give as full an answer as I can-if there were any assurances given to the League of Nations that its decisions would be acceptable to the parties-I mean this very seriously-I am quite sure that the League would be ready to do whatever it could to put an end to the struggles that...
...Monsignor Luzin of the Sacred Congregation of Rome, investigating Conditions in Ireland for the Vatican, offered to mediate for peace, providing that his intervention is backed by the Irish people...
Students from the universities of Belgium, Czecho-Slovakia, Denmark, France, Holland, Norway, Poland, Rumania, Scotland, Sweden, Switzerland, Ukraine and England were officially present at the Confederation Internationale des Etudiants held recently at the Hague. Students from Hungary, Ireland and Latvia also attended, as did Russian Emigre students. The question of German participation was referred to the various national unions. The C. I. E. was formed in Strasbourg in 1919 "for conference about matters of educational and social interest and joint action for the furtherance of their common aims." All religious and political questions are barred. The Confederation is now convened...
...make pleasant reading on this side of the Atlantic. That is the fact that "the average attendance, even in great American cities such as Chicago, is deplorably low compared even with English country town average attendance"; it is "almost as low in the United States as it was in Ireland." That fact, if it is a fact, the Carnegie report did not divulge...
...language but their own, the sensible Continentals have learned to meet them on their own ground. Germany has long taught English in her public schools; the educated foreigner, once devoted to French, has acquired English as well. In North America, Australia, South Africa and the British Isles, except Ireland, of course, English is the ruling tongue. With its increasing use in Europe, Asia and South America, the need for Esparanto that hobby of philologists, is rapidly disappearing...