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...case, but in our view there are higher considerations than stern justice and law." In Britain the Manchester Guardian, recalling the three Irish Republicans hanged in 1867 for killing a Manchester police sergeant, warned: "Nobody looking back on Irish history can fail to see the immense importance that the fate of individuals tried and punished by British authorities has had in Irish history...
...back in the good old days when there was still Little Father Tsar to do all the purging in holy Russia. It was in the idyllic sixties, when maidens still raved of fauns and peasant-song, that a handsome young Emperor of all the Russias bound his fate to that of an impetuous little princess who had grown up in hatred of "all the Romanovs...
...hard but just fate" is the way Gauleiter Arthur Greiser of Posen described the treatment meted out to the "subhuman Slavs...
Juno and the Paycock shows a family meeting a tragic fate through the weaknesses of a comic character. The Paycock's artful dodges and arrant hypocrisies, his braggart airs and grandly drunken delusions, are uproariously funny. But eventually his besotted dance is over and the piper must be paid. Then the light falls on Juno, who-her son murdered, her daughter betrayed, her home destroyed-goes forth, heart crumpled but head high, to begin life over...
...tragic last act of Juno and the Paycock is spoiled by wanton melodrama. Too late, too violently, O'Casey pushes the son and daughter into the limelight. Their fate-not having the full force of the play behind it -seems manipulated, its effect on Juno mawkish. But it is proof of O'Casey's real power that his Paycock should remain comic from start to finish. The Paycock is a callous wastrel for whom O'Casey has only bitter scorn; but he is a born "character," and O'Casey lets him cut his capers without...