IX A. TERRORISTS
EXECUTION IN BRITAIN REFUSAL BY THE POPE TO INTERVENE. CRIME THAT COULD NOT BE EXTENUATED. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. LONDON. February 8. The "Daily Telegraph’s" Vatican City correspondent says it is understood the Pope’s intervention was sought on behalf of the I.R.A. prisoners, Barnes and Richards, but his Holiness refused on the ground that they had had a fair trial, while the crime could not be justified nor extenuated even by the excuse of a patriotic motive. FLAG HALF=MASTED DEMONSTRATION IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK. February 8. I.R.A. sympathisers invaded the closed World's Fair grounds, lowered lo half-mast the Eire flag and laid a wreath in the Irish pavilion in sympathy with Barnes and Richards.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 9 February 1940, Page 5
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