Word: irelanders
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...fought side by side in the great war? Why should we be moved to give offense to a friend for the sake of a people who did their best to knife us in the back during the great war, with their pro-German activities? As for friendly terms with Ireland, does Miss Taff know that American sailors were not allowed shore leave in Irish ports because attempts would be made against their LIVES by the "friendly" Irish? In my own small experience which, however, has brought me much in contact with the English, I have never heard an unkind word...
...should suggest (if you are big enough) your reading "Ireland" (the Republic edition), by Francis Hackett...
...dear boy, think for yourself, be an American, and don't be a today. Most intelligent people today realize for almost the first time that the cause of Ireland is exactly parallel to that of the American colonies, so that it is hardly possible to talk against one without disloyalty to the other. HELEN TAFF...
Sixty-six members of the Yale faculty recently sent a petition similar to that circulated at Harvard, to the President of the United States Senate and to the Speaker of the House of Representatives, opposing any Congressional action bearing upon the relations of Great Britain and Ireland...
...inasmuch as the United States would deeply resent any interference in our own domestic affairs, we should follow the same rule in dealing with other nations. Already Congress has overstepped the bounds of discretion in the eyes of the protesting body by attempting to recognize the ephemeral "Republic of Ireland...