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...various war issues of the day. Since the Armistice, he has been in England, for some time the guest of the British government, in Paris for part of the Peace Conference, and in Belgium and Germany. He is associated with the League of Nations Union, of which Lord Robert Cecil is chairman, and with the World's Adult, and Sailors' Adult, Educational Movements, holding the chairmanship of the latter organization. Mr. Vaughan's appearance here tonight is of particular interest, coming as it does on the heels of Premier Hughes' statement yesterday in regard to Australia's stand...
...justice of his imprisonment there seems no question. As to the wisdom of the Government in refusing to release him, responsible opinion is divided even in England. But of this there can be no doubt, that the late Lord Mayor has taken a place in the long list of nobly sincere and impassioned Irish patriots. --New York Times...
...death of Lord Mayor MacSwiney in an English prison was indeed an unfortunate event for the Lloyd George Government, and one not calculated to restore peace in Ireland. Aside from the excellent point made by Mr Ferguson in today's Crimson, there is the Cuestion of what effect the death of the Lord Mayor will have on the minds of many people. Among those who have always been pro-Sinn Fein, it will serve only to intensify their bitter hatred of England, but the greatest effect will be upon the minds of those who are friendly to the British Empire...
...dull and boring and even "plebeian," can have the callousness to joke about a man who has just made the most courageous and noble and idealistic sacrifice a man can make. Levity in such a case cannot fail to stir the feelings of all those who see in Lord Mayer MacSwiney's death an unfalling loyalty to ideals, seldom realized in most men, and therefore the more inspiring, And such levity will not, I think, be anything to be boasted of or gloried in. DUNCAN P. FERGUSON...
Until recently Moses was the only man who ever took down anything the Lord said on a short-hand...