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FRIENDS of IRISH FREEDOM
POLICY ADOPTED DECEMBER 29, 1920
The following resolutions were, on motion of Hon. Daniel F, Cohalan,
unanimously adopted at the meeting of the National Council, Friends of Irish
Freedom, held at New York, December 29, 1920:
Whereas, the Friends of Irish Freedom, since its organization, has done
more for the Cause of Irish Independence in the United States of America
than was ever accomplished prior thereto by any American organization, and
Whereas, among other things, and as a result of their efforts,
(a) The American Irish racial group has been more thoroughly organ-
ized and united than ever before in the history of our country,
(b) The National House of Representatives passed a resolution in favor
of Ireland,
(c) The United States Senate passed a similar resolution by a vote
of 60 to 1,
(d) Many of the State Legislatures and municipalities, commercial,
social and political organizations all over the United States passed like
resolutions,
(e) As a result of these efforts the Irish Cause reached the ear and
aroused the conscience of a majority of the American people in favor of the
Irish Cause.
(f) The danger of the League of Nations was first called to the attention
of the American people by O. I. F.,, later to be overwhelmingly
repudiated at the last National election. The demonstrated failure of the
League as a going concern at Geneva has not deterred Great Britain from
continuing to attempt to cajole the United States into some sort of an alliance
with it for the furtherance of its selfish purposes, against which the American
people must be on guard,
(g) The F. O. I. F. assumed the initiative in opposition to the Armenian
Mandate which was de facto an attempt at an Anglo-American alliance, and
which if successful would have resulted in American youth now being under
arms and shedding their blood as a part of the British program for commer-
cial dominance in the Near East.
(h) The British devised and controlled anti-American propaganda in
the public schools, on the lecture platform, the stage, in the public press,
moving pictures, magazines, books and pamphlets, was exposed to the Ameri-
can people by the F. O. I. F., by counter-publications, bulletins, news letters,
pamphlets, maps, and the truth presented by a host of public speakers under
the auspices of this organization.
(i) The work and influence of the American Irish under the leadership
and direction of the F, O. . F. was an important factor in preserving the
traditional policy of the United States guarantecing the right of political
asylum.
Whereas, it is urgently necessary that the work, so well begun, to
protect the liberties and free institutions of this country, which once lost or
diminished in power, means that no help can be given by the American people
to the Irish in their struggle for a similar freedom shall be prosecuted more
vigorously than ever;
Now, therefore,
BE IT RESOLVED, That the organization direct its efforts among
other things—
To uphold the right of the Republic of Ireland to international .
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recognition, and to inform the American people to the end that the Govern-
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