Word: irelander
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...have given assent to a bill for confirmation of the agreement reached between my ministers and the Governments of the Irish Free State and Northern Ireland [the Irish boundary settlement, TIME, Dec. 14, 21]. It is my heartfelt prayer that this measure may advance co-operation and strengthen good will in Ireland...
...Good Friday, April 21, 1916, the German submarine U-719 eased up out of the sea off the west coast of Ireland. As the conning tower hatch was raised, a tall, thin, cadaverous Irishman with thick black hair and a pointed beard looked out. His complexion, deeply tanned during the long years he had spent serving the British Crown in the tropics, was now grown sallow and his forehead showed a network of tiny lines. Though Edward VII had knighted him, he was now about to commit the last act in a conspiracy of high treason against the realm...
...distrusted their loyalty that he had left them behind in Germany, decked out in handsome green uniforms with harps worked in embroidery on the collar. Now the Germans, having partly lost faith in him, were insisting that he prove his own loyalty to them by landing in Ireland and directing a revolt, to be supported by smuggled German arms. To Sir Roger Casement, strange, brilliant, unbalanced adventurer, it seemed that his chances, even of life, were slim enough. Jauntily he called back toward the U-719, "I need nothing, Herr Kapitan, except my shroud...
Throughout the Empire the keenest relief was expressed on every hand. Premier Baldwin declared: "Had there been no settlement of the boundary question by agreement. . . chaos in Ireland would have resulted." Replying to those who carped at England's virtually "buying peace" by relinquishing her claims upon the Free State, he cried: "Where does the interest of Great Britain lie! Does it lie in keeping the South of Ireland poor and trying to squeeze a debt out of her? As a matter of pure business the interest of this country lies in a prosperous and peaceful Ireland...
...averred that the Mosul question (see INTERNATIONAL) should be settled by "a Turkish Locarno"; and the Ulster boundary agreement (see IRELAND) was mentioned on every hand as "the Irish Locarno." Cynical persons predicted the hour when the Peking Customs Conference (see CHINA) would be touted as "the Chinese Locarno." Meanwhile this felicitous spirit was rumored to have flown in at the door of the St. James's Club, famed exclusive rendezvous of London diplomats. As a result, a spokesman for the German Embassy hinted that his colleagues are shortly to be invited back into the club, which has been...