Manawatu Herald SATURDAY, OCTOBER 19. 1918. IRELAND AND THE WAR.
TWO articles were recently published in the London Morning Rost from a correspondent who had visited Ireland for the first time since the Avar began. Commenting on his observations, the Morning Post says the picture he presents is of a country “where Die Avar does not count;” a country of abounding plenty and ample leisure: a country to which the agony of Europe is a matter of supreme indifference; a country which eats, drinks, makes money, amt takes its ease, while others light its battles, if any shade of anxiety over crosses, the iri-liman’s mind ii is lest be should by inadvertence do anything to help, it L a positive grievance that Irish labour cannot come to England for Inc line wages I tint are offering for fear lest it should “get look.” In all her chequered history Ireland has never cut a sorrier figure nor played a more contemptible part; ami it is some satisfaction to know that the truth about her is at last likely to bo rev vealed where it xvill produce the most salutary impression. There are American and Dominion soldiers in Ireland; men who have travelled thousands of miles to fight for the cause which Ireland deserts. What they see with their OAvn eyes will hardly kindle sympathy for Avhal they had been taught to regard as “a poor, oppressed nation, groaning under a tyranny worse than that of Russia in Poland.” It is not for “oppressed nations” of the Irish type that they have left their homes and dedicated their lives. In the past it has been difficult for the easy-going Englishman to understand the animosity of the Irish temper. In the future the difficulty is likely to disappear, for the ani-
mosity will not be all on one side. If Ireland prefer* her ease to her self-respect that is her affair, but if she imagines that England, and not only England, but America, will forgot the choice she has made, Ireland is vastly mistaken.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XL, Issue 1892, 19 October 1918, Page 2
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341Manawatu Herald SATURDAY, OCTOBER 19. 1918. IRELAND AND THE WAR. Manawatu Herald, Volume XL, Issue 1892, 19 October 1918, Page 2
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