Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1918-07-29
AMERICA WANTS
NO COMPROMISE
! SAYS 0'C0NNOR
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Irish Leader Gives Views Of
|, u. S. War Work Follow
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ing Long Visit Here.

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New York. July. 2s.Impressions OF
+. P. o'Connor, M. r. one Of : q
the world war we're written for the
Associated Press. Just before his de.
parture for England. for publication
at the time OF his arrival.
Mr.. ;O'Connor was In this country
sfor more than a year as q commis-'
sioner of the Irish parliamentary par
ty, and he soon Joined to- such labors
VERY effective campaigns to create al
lied sentiment among h Irish, par
%~ticularly one-directed by the National
Security league. He anne into con-
tact with most OF the government Of
%fcials, including President Wilson.
Eand saw the transformation Of the ma
Etion from, seeming lack of realization
sMof what the war meant to q nation
THAT feels most passionately, most
and most ruthlessly."' He
Preached this conclusion:
'1f any one or all Of the European
should in war WEAKNESS show
OF accepting an inconclusive
VI peace, America would keep on, even
she had to stand alone. Wherever
Melsesthe Germans may look for q spirit
s##of compromise, they cannot look for
BIT, or even for an approach to it, from
1.-THE people Of the United States"
NJ Pictures Wilson.
n Mr.. O'Connor's characterization Of
n President Wilson is one of the most
NJ intimate ever given by foreign writers
(4or statesmen. The picturesque Irish
S leader votes the president as domi-
u nantly' celt, and sees a contradiction
4 between the president Of the photo
\ graph and the president Of the living
1 flesh and blood, and he prefers the
4 latter. After telling Of his arrival in
" New York in June. 1917. MI. OCon-
nor writes as follows:
II must own my first Impressions
n were not encouraging from any point
! of view. Within a few hours I had
Il every evidence on the n hand that
n the anti English sentiment had not
/ yet spent itself and still confused the
issues in the minds of some of my
Z this great rich city, running as /
/ thought to every seaside resort in the
Z vacation spirit Of the summer. was in
I marked contrast to h sombre atti-
tude' and atmosphere of the city I had
lefts after three years Of war Further.
Fl found in private conversation, a
startling evidence Of a division of
4 mind and opinion as to Americas in
i tervention in the war, which vas ex-
III ~ W oLA opSA1lLCSo "4AANAk -
4 prised and even panied me.
II speak Of this first impression
!, frankly, because I am able immedi-
4 ately to add that I saw. the transfer
nation Of feeling gradually grow from
one endsof america to the other. un-
4 til now I feel, convinced that of all
nations engaged in this war, the one
that feels most ~passionately, most
unftedlyt and most ruthlessly, is Amer
ica."!
Relates Interviews.
among the experiences I recollect
with the greatest pleasure were two
interviews with the president. and es-
pecially IAN interview I had with him
Immediately before my departure. I
had been a student Of his writings
and speeches for many years, and
though I had never met him before.
|, I felt as thought was acquainted with
his thought and%temRerament. I must
add that my personal interviews with
him had. however, the effect Of chang
ing some Of the impressions which are
suggested by his public appearance
and especially by his. photographs,
The president 81 the living flesh and
blood seen close at hand are almost
a contradiction. M
1.-THE severity Of feature in the pho
tographrentirely disappears when you
are seated opposite him. Let me sum
up my impressions from a private in
terview, by saying that he is a man of
perfect simplicity, transparent sin
cerity, rigid adhesion to w~ell-thought-
out principles and almost Celtic i'm
|. pu%lsiveness of warm feeling, tempered
& rather than controlled, by the cautious
\ side Of his partially sScotch-Irish an
cestors..%Indeed. to me he lie much
more dominantly .Celt than Scotch
/ Irish. OF course. am not at liberty to
reveal his expression, except to say