Word: irelander
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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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...
...citizens of this country may or may not be in sympathy with the Irish. But this much is sure: they will not for one minute endure the transplanting of mob violence and revolutionary 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...
Hackett: Ireland...
Without entering into any discussion as to the right or wrong of Ireland's claims, the fact remains that England holds the country and is responsible for what law there is in it. She is attempting to maintain the law with a system of cruelty and killing by the official police. It is explained that such acts are reprisals and are justified. "In speaking of reprisals, Mr. Lloyd George argued that the police would not bomb houses and shoot men if there was no provocation." Sir Hamar Greenwood, Chief Secretary for Ireland, defended the Government's actions by saying that...
...worthless so far as justice is concerned. In modern times any community that believes in the eye for an eye doctrine must be either struggling for existence without any law or police, or must be in error. Reprisals have no place even in martial law; and the injustice in Ireland of having martial law administered in one place and not in another is not lessened by having what law there is tainted with a barbaric tit for tat doctrine. That England is justified in her actions has nothing to do with the value of a system. Nor is she justified...