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...Erin Go Blah...
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...note was a protest made at the registration, last summer, by the Irish Free State of the Anglo-Irish Treaty of 1921, afterwards incorporated into the Irish Free State Agreement Act, which established the Free State within the coasts of Erin. Thereupon was injected into the League the whole question of the international status of the British Dominions. Britain contended that the Treaty is a domestic concern between two component nations of the British Commonwealth. Ireland contended that it was an instrument between two separate nations and entitled to registration under Article XVIII of the Covenant...
...Professor of Zoology at Liverpool University. He devoted not only his talents but his very considerable fortune to Science. In 1904 he was President of the Lennean Society. In 1907 he was President of the Zoology Section of the British Association. He founded the Marine Biological Station at Port Erin, Isle of Man, and also the Sea-Fish Hatchery at Piel. In 1909 Harvard made him a Doctor of Science. In 1910 Edinburgh, his alma mater, made him Doctor of Laws. He gave largely to the scientific departments of several Universities-to Liverpool and to the University of London...
...Author. William McFee is a stocky man, blond, with vivid sea-blue eyes. Son of a British sea-captain, he was born, in 1881, in a three-masted square-rigger, Erin's Isle, homeward bound from India. Educated in English schools, a prodigious reader, he found the lure of the sea was in his blood. So at 24 he qualified as Engineer and ever since has cruised about. Most of his writing was done in the Chief Engineer's room of his various ships and was sandwiched in between long hours with engine pumps, port boilers, bilge rams...