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Typescript copy: "The Correct copy of Roger Casement's Letter to Sir Edward Grey: 'A Black Chapter of English Perfidy,' February 1, 1915."
Author
Casement, Roger, Sir, 1864-1916.
Date Added
11 January 2014
Language
English
Publish Date
1915-02-01
Source
McGarrity Papers
Topic
Grey of Fallodon, Edward Grey, Viscount, 1862-1933. Casement, Roger, Sir, 1864-1916 --Correspondence. Ireland > History > 1910-1921.
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To save Ireland fron sore off the calamities of war was worth the loss
to myself of pension.and honors,and was even worth the commission of an
act of technical "treason,"
I decided to teke all the risks and to accept all the penalities
the Law might attach to my action.I did not, however, bargain for risks
and penalities that lay outsidemthe law as far as my own actio
the field of moral turpitude. y n lay outside
eho fhebe of meehb tyspdiucte
In other words,while I reckoned with the British law and legal
penalities and accepted the sacrifice of income, position,and reputation
as prices I must Ppay,I did not reckon with the British Government.
For the criminal conspiracy that Mr M.De.C,Findlay,H.B.M.Minister
to the court of Norway entered into On the 30th October last,in the
British Legation in Christians,with the Norwegian subject, Eivind Adler
Christensen, involvedall these things and more,It involved not merely a
lewless attack on myself for which the British Minister promised my
follower the sum of five thousand pound, but it involved a breach of
international law as well as of common law, for which the British Mimister
in Norway promised this Norwegian subject full immunity.
On the 29th October last year I landed at Christiana,coming from
America.
Within a few hours of my landing the man I had engaged an
I reposed trust was accosted by one of the secret service erents agente.
of the British Minister and carried off,in a private motor car,to the
British Legation,where the first attempt was made on his honor to
induce him to be false to me.Yor agent in the Legation that afternoon
professed ignorance of who I wds and sought,as he put it,merely to find
out my identy and movements.
Failing in this first attempt to obtain satisfaction Adler
Christensen was assailed next day,the 30th Of October, by a fresh agent
and received an invitation to visit the British Legation "where he would
hear something good",
This,the second interview,held in the early forenoon,was with the
Minister himself,
Mr Findlay came quickly to the point, The ignorance, assumed or
actual,of the previousday,as to my identgéty was how discarded. He
confessed that he knew me,but that he did not know where I was going to
what I intended doing, or what might be the specific end I had in view, ,
It was enough for him that I was an Irish Nationalist,
He admitted that the British Government had no evidence of anything
wrong doné6,or contemplated, by me that empowered them either morally or
lawfully to interfere with my movements,But he was bent on doing so,
Therefore he poldly invoked lawlesa methods,and suggested to my dependent
that were I to "Disappear" it would be "a very good thing for whoever
prought it about.
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