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Full Title	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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OCR LT OT ERR Rete oe You. are fully aware of most-of: tho: @aoabln as you were in constant - touch with your agent both by cable and despatch, You are also aware of the declaration of the Imperial German Government, issued on November 20th last in reply to the enquiry I addressed to them, The British Government, both by press reports and by direct agents had charged Germany, throughout the length and breadth of Ireland,with the commission of atrocious crimes in Belguim and had warned the Irish people that their fate would be the same.did Germany winthe war, Your Government sought to frighten Ir#shmen into a predatory raid upon a people who had never injured them and to persuade them by false charges that this was their duty.* 0: °: I sought not only a guarantee of German good-will to Ireland but to relieve my countrymen from the apprehensions this campaign of calumny was designed to provide and so far as was possible to dissuade them from embarking in an immoral conflict against a 4 people who had never wronged Ireland.That declaration of the German Government,issued as I know in all sincerity is the justification of my "treason." The justification of the conspiracy of the British Government and its Minister at Christiana, begun before I had set foot on German soil,in a country where I had a perfect right to be,and conducted by the lowest forms of attempted bribe and corruption: I leave you, Sir, to discover. You will not discover it in the many interviews Mr Findlay had, during the months of November and december last,at his own seeking,with my faithful follower,Th@ correspondence between them in the cypher the Minister had arranged tells its own story, These interviews furnished matter that in due course I shall make public, What passed between your agent and mine on these occasions you are fully aware of,as you were the directing power throughout the whole proceeding, Your object,as Mr Findlay frankly avowed..to the man he thoughthe had pought,was to take my life with public indignity,mine was to expose your design and to do so through the very agent you had yourselves singled out for the purpose and had sought to corrupt to an act of singular infamy, On one occasion in response to my follower's pretended dissatisfaction with the amount offered for betraying me,you authorised your agent to jnorease the sum to 10,000 pounds.I: have a full record of the conversations held,and of the pledges proferred in your name, On two occasions,during these prolonged bargainings your Minister gave Adler Christensen gifts of "Earnest money." Once it was five hundred crowns in Norwegian currency; the next time,a similar sum,partly in Norwegian and partly in English gold.On one of these occasions,to be precise,on the 7th of December last,Mr Findlay handed Adler Christensen the key of the pack entrance of the British Legation,so thet he might go and come unobserved and at all hours I propose returning this key in person to the donor and along with it the various sums so anxiously bestowed upon my follower {

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