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A Straight Deal

CHAPTER XVI: An International Imposture
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But, upon being cross-examined, it was found that the Green Irish who had made the trouble had never been punished.

Of this many of us had news before Admiral Sims in The World's Work for November, pages 63-64, gave it his authoritative confirmation.
Taking one consideration with another, it hardly seems to me that our debt to the Green Irish is sufficiently heavy for us to hinder England for the sake of helping them and Germany.
Not all the Green Irish were guilty of the attacks upon our sailors; not all by any means were pro-German; and I know personally of loyal Roman Catholics who are wholly on England's side, and are wholly opposed to Sinn Fein.

Many such are here, many in Ireland: them I do not mean.

It is Sinn Fein that I mean.
In 1918, when England with her back to the wall was fighting Germany, the Green Irish killed the draft.

Here following, I give some specific instances of what the Roman Catholic priests said.
April 21st.


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