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THERE ARE IRELANDS
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BY
ROBERT LYND
is possible to understand the present situation In Ireland only If we BLO against a background of his
story the tory. And
KOON back a long time.
Let us begin nearly a thou- sand years ago, when, for the Inst time so far, Ireland was "he both united and free Danes
the were
in enemy those days, and King Bron of the Tributes had braten. them off for ever at the battle of Clontarf. A minor Golden Age followed during which the national civilisation flourished.
In the following century an Irish Quisling brought a new invader into Ireland the Anglo-Normans. Many people think that religion is at the root of every trouble in Ire land, but it
Catholic England that first conquered Catholic Ireland.
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In century after century, it the object of the con- querors to destroy Trish civil- language, customs sation -- and culture. In spite of this many of the descendants of
the English
settlers became than the Irish" and helped maintain the national tradi-
"more Irish
themselves.
tion.
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to
of
M ✡ DURING the
reign Queen Elizabeth, when revolt after revolt took place, the conqueror were
bent on
policy, not only of conquest, but of extermination. Froude of the Eliza- says of one bethan leaders that he was not a bad man, but that "he as dealing regarded himself
bensts with ruther
Savage than with human beings, and when he traced them to their dens he strangled their cubs out their entire und routed broods."
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better Cromwell, a
the horror of still, repeated devastation, and, when King William III. defeated James II. and his Irish followers at the Battle of the Boyne and at Limerick, it seemed as if of Irish freedom the flame
had gone out for ever. The Pope, it is interesting to re-. call, was on King William'a side, and had joybells rang in Rome in celebration of the Orange victory at the Boyne.
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In the eighteenth century
now patriotic movement' grew up among the Irish Pro- testanta, with Dean Swift as one of the leading figures. Driven out by oppression and misrule, many of these Pro- testants emigrated to the American Colonies, and, ac- cording to Lord Mountjoy, speaking of the American
Independence,
War of "America was lost by Irish emigrants.
About this time, the Pres byterian settlers in the North flocked into the ranks of the Volunteers, and, with their help, Ireland gained a Parlik- ment of its own in 1782 The Parliament was eerrupt, how- ever, and the revolutionary spirits of the time demanded rel Neck
Imat only formal
In the rebellion that Merly followed North as well South took part
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There eattle the Union. achieved by The brilery of corrupt men and opposed by what Lecky calls "the un briged intellect of Ireland." l'esiges made the time were not kept, and wealth was drafted from the coun- try, since the landlord class migrated from Dublin to London.
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The famine of the forties fell on
poverty-stricken country. destroying about million people; and the Irish race dwindled slowly to about half its former size.
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buring these things with bit- Terness. All powerful States behaved badly during those black centuries. But 11 necessary to understand such things in order to realise how
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difficult it is to uproot the widespread Irish-as I think, mistaken-suspicion of Eng-
lund.
Even during the last war, when Ireland sent 600,000
into
British soldiers
the Army, there were anti-Irish influences nt work in this country determined to defeat, not only Germany, but Ire-
lavand
As for the Protestants of later, many of them fre equally suspicious of their Catholic fellow - countrymen. After the rebellion of 1798. Catholic About propaganda atrocities performed its pur- 1'11er Kreal jose, and lender. The Rev. Henry Cooke, redit the sectarian fires of the seventeenth century with re- sults that have lasted.
At the beginning of the last war many people hoped that the two sections of Irishmen would be brought together by their common interest in pre- venting a German conquest of Ireland. There were kaders on both sides, however, who could not forget their here. ditary suspicions even in face of that deadly threat to their comhion country.
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HENCE, when the Anglo- Irish Trenty came, the Six Counties demanded the parti- tion of Ireland as a price. If it had not been for this, we should probably have Bern Mr. de Valern, not holding on to neutrality to-day, but play- ing a similiar part to that
THREE FRENCH
By JOHN PUDNEY
CLOSE your eyes as we sit with our glasses
ing.
round a table in the cool of the urban even- "Bon sante, monsieur," they have said, and it is just another evening in that long suc- cession of French summers.
The gunsmith of the town Lable to has thumped the point the statement that he suld 86,000 cartridges last year, the accountant in the beret is disinclined to believe him, the large draper drinks deep and shrugs often.
The pungency of an unti- dily-rolled cigarette sharpens the Gullic atmosphere.
**Two 'nrves o' mild" de.
the
spell-breaking mands volce.
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Open your eyes on the court-yard of the London pub-stout ladies with stout at the tables, bus conductora on the benches, a thin solemn Cockney on my. right who desires "mild."
Scattered By War
But the three gentlemen from the same town sit there in their French uniforms, talkative, courteous, gravely bewildered in the midst of the familiar clamour of the Cock- ney week-end scene.
The knew each other at home, yes. Then the war scattered them in different regiments.
They now eagerly discuss their families, sitting among
narrow
the Cuckney families in the pi the court-yard pub; and they celebrate thin the unexpected reunion in suburbs in English beer.
"It blows you out," says the large draper of our beer.
"One must treat it with re- speet." adds the gunsmith.
On the whole they approve. English Leer they admit is an acquired taste, but they are satisfied that they have ac- quired it.
Ss. A Week
You may have seen some of these lonely servicemen from defeated France, strolling through
streets. London They do not look very guy, for few of them speak. English, few of them have nows of their families, few of them many coppers to spare (those I talked to are getting 5s. a week pay).
With one accord all the French soldiers and sailors 1 met this week-end testified to the warmth and friendliness of the ordinary man in the street, though the language' difficulty is often most acute where the spirit of Entente Cordiale is at its highest.
Themed be
King Eestines Myndicate, tre
September 2, 1940. By Walt Disney
WALT
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FIRE
LIMERICK
BANGALORES
in
CORK
1914 played in
South Africa by General Botha and General Smuts.
Personally. I think it is an error to raise the question of partition just now. If the Nazis won-as they will not A much worse fate would befall Eire than separation from the Six Counties. Siml- Jarly. if the Nazis won, much worse fate would befall the Six Counties than union with the rest of Ireland.
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In the circumstances, is it wise for Mr. de Valern or Lord Craigavon to refuse to meret the other and to ev- operate in defending Ireland against possible invasion ex- cept on his own conditions?
It seems to me that this is
n time when the South should
all-Ireland adopt, for
pur- Northern slogan, poses, the "No Surrender!" and when the North should reply by adopting the old Irish slogan, "God Save Ireland!"
SOLDIERS
THE
MEET COCKNEYS
Nobody could suggest that the circumstances of their present trip here are happy. But both among those who wish to go back to their fami- les and among those wishing to fight along with us, these dark days seem to have esta- blished a solidarity with this country. more particularly with the working-class people of this country whom they are now seeing for the first time.
"I have seen your soldiers and your sailors at Dunkirk," says a sailor from the South. "I have now also seen the or- dinary
have people. You something here, mon ami!"
n'est
"LB France
рда somebody науа. morte," Exiles in the bar nod their affirmation and drink.
In the pin-table saloon are uniformed Africans wearing car-rings, Alpinists, in thick small woollen stockings, knowing Parisians. Anyone with a penny to spare is a magnet to them; twenty or so of them surround the player to watch the flashing lights. Pierro, a sailor from Brest, tells me that he has spent every free evening here watching the sport.
They Miss The Coffee Along the wide parade of shops there is one cafe where
some-
they have discovered body who
speaks French. That shop is doing a great traffic in their meagre pence,
As for July 14: that was still a red letter day for some of them.
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Nazis Lose 293 Planes In Six
Six Days' Raiding
LONDON, Sept. 1. (Reuter).The German Air Force lost 293 planes in attacks on Great Britain in the week August 25.
to 31.
That is the number claimed by the Air Ministry ny shot down and, as has been previously pointed out, enemy aircraft listed "probably des- troyed" or "damaged" Bometimes equal the number claimed as definite ly destroyed.
The mujority of the German losses
are planes carrying multiple crews. So the loss of personnel is far more. 700 Airmen Lost
It is fair to assume, therefore, that
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Broadcast by ZBW on a Frequency these 203 planes represent a loss of of 845 ko's; and on Short Wave over 700 trained airmen.
In the same week, R.A.F. losses from 1-2.15 pm and 8-11 p.m. on were 113 fighters in the defence of 9.52 M.c's Fer Sec.
12.16 pm Shurt Service of Inter- Britain and 15 bombere participating
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12.30 Gershwin-Cuban Överture,
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As the fighters operated over this country, those who took to parachutes were picked up. These numbered The three citizens of the 69, so the total loss to RAF. per-
sonnel was only about 110. by careful living one town
Bave 68, cach. managed to They took it to the West End and sat down in a restaurant at Piccadilly Circus (not cheap, alas) and celebrated, till Frenchmen, like good their week's money was gone.
And English food?
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When it is plain they like it, but they miss the long loaves of bread and the good coffee.
Last-War French
Little pocket dictionaries are handed about in, the pin- table saloon, the pub and the bright week-end shops. A few words of English are tried; they sometimes get a fow words of last-war soldiers' French in reply.
Something in a pub, which cemented the undying soli- darity between the working men of two countries was the whiskered bloke in the cloth cap who winked at his Mrs. and huskily holleredout "Vive La France." Every- one drank the toast..
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Farm Workers Get Their 48/- Minimum Now national minimum wages of 40s, a week for farm workers comes into force to-morrow with u. 50%. SPECIAL TO THE TELEGRAPH'*- minimum in Derbyshire and Holland LISBON, Sept. 1. (Domei)-Portu- (Lines), and substantial proportion
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girla. The decision was taken because The Central Agricultural Wages Portugal does not recognise the So-Board has received a unanimous, re- viet Gavernment, which recantly as-port in favour of the wage from the sumed full control over the three forty-seven wages committees con- Baltic States.
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