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Albania. Premier Fan Noli of Albania, Harvard graduate, caused a stir in the Assembly by delivering himself of a veiled attack on the U. S. He described Boston as an Irish city "full of O'Connors, O'Connells and Fitzgeralds, all of them good talkers, who with other Irishmen do all of the talking in American electoral campaigns...
...James Craig has been reviled and praised by Irishmen more than any other denizen of the Emerald Isle. Of course, the Irishmen that do the reviling will not admit that Sir James or any of his admirers are Irishmen, while the Irishmen that do the praising stoutly affirm that they are every bit as Irish as those who revile...
...Irishmen who had tortured a prisoner by pouring hot rosin into his boots.) I accept in good part your careful travail and greatly commend your doings...
Under existing conditions it is hard to see how any far-sighted Irishmen can ask more than the new constitution gives. An oath of allegiance to the King is required of every member of the new Parliament, but that is a form more than anything else and ought not to stick for long in the Irish throat. The Crown, too, retains a viceroy in Iceland, but he is governed by the wishes of the wholly Irish executive council. Except in the case of actual invasion the Irish Free State is not committed to active participation in any British war without...
...Pope today and potatoes tomorrow, but there will always be an Irish Question,--and a burning one!" What has been definitely accomplished, and what the whole world,--except that international nuisance, the Professional Irishman,--celebrates today, it that the Irish Question is at last left to the Irishmen themselves to settle, without direction from the outside. Even the spirit of the more enlightened British administrations, inspired by the idea embodied in Cromwell's proclamation of 1649, that Ireland was to receive all the benefits of a free, reformed English government if only she would behave and let her house...