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Replied Chief British Rabbi Joseph Herman Hertz. "To my great regret. I do not see how any action of mine could ad" vance the cause of peace or good understanding between England and Ireland...
...Ottawa last week Vice President Sean O'Kelly of the Free State set forth his Government's view informally thus: "It must be remembered that the land of Ireland, almost all of it, was at one time or another taken by force (stolen, one could truthfully say) from the rightful owners, the Irish people, by English invaders. . . . After a long struggle the English consented to let the Irish buy back their own lands at a high price [by paying the 'land annuities']. "We have now refused," summed up Mr. O'Kelly, "to continue...
Doing No Wrong? "If England wants a fight, England can have a fight!" cried de Valera Deputy Corey in the Dail. "Ireland is no longer going to be the kitchen garden of England...
Previously President de Valera, by no means spoiling for a fight, had exclaimed, "I appeal once more to the British, asking them to state unequivocally that the people of Ireland would not be interfered with by hostile British action should they declare their independence...
...left for Lausanne (TIME, June 20). Again they flatly disagreed, an event which so upset old George Lansbury, leader of the Labor Opposition in the House of Commons, that he cried: "I call upon the Pope and the Archbishop of Canterbury to intervene! . . . We have started a fight with Ireland the end of which...