SIR ROGER CASEMENT.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 41, 19 February 1915, Page 2

SIR ROGER CASEMENT.

A London correspondent writes:— It is alleged that Sir Roger Casement is still in Berlin, and has prepared for German use a pamphlet condemning England. Mr F. W. Wile, the late Beilin correspondent of the Daily Mail, says that the pamphlet is entitled, “The Crime Against Ireland and How the War May Right It.” It is a 100-page tirade of an appeal for a /l German-AmericanHrish‘-Allianc , e”and has been officially circulated by the German Foreign Office, and is now being pressed into the hands of every American within the reach of the Kaiser’s far-fixing propaganda system. Casement’s pamphlet opens with a preface dated New York, September Ist, 1914, which begins:— “The following articles were begun in 1911, under the title, ‘lreland Germany, and the Next War,’ and were intended foi private circulation only among a few interested friends of both countries. . The whole seven parts furnish in outline the case for a Gennan-lrish alliance as this cd itself to the writer’s mind when

the world was still in peace; and in Part VII. the intrigues of Great Britain to induce an anti-German policy on the part of the United. States are touched on.”

Sir Roger’s articles especially delight the Teuton heart, Mr Wile tells us, because of their violent attack on the idea of an Anglo-American rapprochement. Such a consummation has been Germany’s political pet aversion for the past sixteen years—ever since the Spanish-American war. It is easy to imagine the satisfaction which the closing sentiments of Sir Roger’s preachment evoke in Berlin : “The Anglo-Saxon Alliance means a compact to ensure slavery and beget war. The people who fought the greatest war in modern history to release slaves are not likely to begin the greatest war in all history to beget slaves. Let the truth be known in America that England wants to turn the great Republic of freemen into the imperial ally of the great Empire of bought men, and that day the AngloSaxon Alliance gives place to the Declaration of Independence. The true alliance to aim at, for all who love peace, is the 'friendly union of Germany, America and Ireland. These are. the true United States of the world. Ireland, the link between Europe and America, must lie freed by both. Denied to-day free intercourse with either, she yet forms in the great design of Providence the natural bond to bring the Old World and the New together. May 1915 lay the foundations of this—the true Hundred Years of Peace!” , ANOTHER htIPUDIATieN BY IRISH NATIONALISTS.

The unpopularity of Sir Roger Casement among Irish Nationalists was made clear at a meeting held at New York, attended by the Municipal Council of the ’ United Irish League and affilioated Irish societies. '

A resolution was passed unanimously condemning Sir Roger’s reported visit to the German Foreign Office, where he was assured by the Imperial Chancellor that German troops would land in Ireland “not as an army of invaders to pillage and destroy, but as the forces of a nation inspired by ‘ good will towards Ireland and her people.” The meeting declared that Sir Roger I Casement had never been connected in any way with the Home Rule movement in Ireland or America, and that he had always been hostile to its objects and policy. He had been utterly repudiated by the Irish \ olunteers and the Irish National leaders in both countries.