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Press Release, From: Friends of Irish Freedom, National Bureau of Information, [n.d.]
Author
De Lue, Willard, Chief, National Bureau of Information. O'Connell, Daniel T.
Date Added
11 January 2014
Language
English
Source
ACHS
Topic
Great Britain > Foreign relations > Ireland. Great Britain > Foreign relations > United States. Geddes, Auckland, Sir, 1879-1954. Lloyd George, David, 1863-1945. Carson, Edward Henry Carson, Baron, 1854-1935.
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Prionas of Irish Freedom
National Bureou of Information,
1051 Munsoy Bldg., Willard De Ine, eniar,
‘Phone Pre=klin 3754. Section of Information.
For DDRLDIATS RSLRAS a
Washington -- The following statoment was issued todoy by
Daniel T. O'Connell, Director of the Friends of Irish Freedom, Netionnl puroau;
Those who know of the hypocrisy of “ir. Lloyd Georgo ere not sur-
prised that Sir Aucklend Geddes, the new English Ambassador to the United
States, should on arriving procleim in ono breath his ambition to develop the
mutual rospect and understanding betwaen this country and ‘tho British Empire
and in the next make to the American public ° forrml statement on the »ttitude
of British officialdom toware Irelend which fairly reeks with insincority. As
Lloyd George's spokesmen in Amerier, the British Ambrssrdor has proved himself
skilled in the methoés of his superior. ,
If Sir Auckland is to bo belioved, all England cesires is that
Irishmen be given an opportunity to work out their own salvation without inter-
ference from the outside. Yot, every American knows that this is exactly
whet Lloyd George does not intend to pllow then.
In 1913 ene in 1914 when pr. settlement hrd bean rrrived ot which,
at that timc, satisfied the great mass of the Irish people, end which wes 1
settlement which cxpressed the will of the mpjority of the electorate of Great
Britain, 2 smoll group.of recalcitrents representing the Junker clrss of Eng-
lend, the same cless for which Sir Auckland is now the mouthpiccc, invaded
Irelene and, through the instrumentality of Carson, flouted tho will of the
Irish people end the will of the English éermocrecy. It is a commonplace of
modern history thot the so-called Carson revolt was mode, not in Irelend but
in Englenda. The strength of the Carson movement was in the militaristic
group of Junkers who controlled the English army -nd navy.
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