The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1921-04-09


TY AND STUPIDITY.
Frank P. Walsh, Counsel for the Re-
public of Ireland, on April 3 issued the
following statement in reply to the
British Embassy's answer to the re-
port of the American Commission on
conditions in Ireland:
Frank WaIsh's Statement.
The statement of the British Am
bassador in reply to the report of the
American Commission on conditions
in Ireland is false and misleading.
The gross perversion Of facts in Am
bassador Geddes' statement is proved.
not only by the public statements of
distinguished British statesmen who
have investigated conditions in Ire
land, but also by the admissions of
Premier Lloyd George and Sir Hamar
Greenwood in the House of Commons.
Geddes Denies Facts.
The British Ambassador has select
ed the public press for his answer to
the evidence of eye-witnesses who ap-
peared before the Commission. Meth
er the British Ambassador, nor any
other defender of British terrorism in
Ireland, dared to appear before the
Commission and publicly present their
testimony in open court. The British
Ambassador now states that he has in
his possession evidence which dis
proves the findings of the Commission.
I am ready to join with British Am
bassador Geddes in a request that the
Commission be Immediately called to-
gether to hear the evidence which he
claims he has in his possession, or to
meet him in the presentation Of evil
dence regarding the British atrocities
in Ireland before any properly consti-
tuted international tribunal. If the
British Ambassador refuses to present
his evidence before such a tribunal
where it may be challenged and dis,
proved, shall brand him as a wilful
and malicious falsifier.
British Leaders Admit Facts.
The American people will not be
misled by the unsupported. falsehoods
of Ambassador Geddes in the face of
public statements of British states
men who have informed themselves at
first-hand regarding British outrages
in Ireland. This very policy of duplic-
ity and Justification by the British
government in concealing crimes in
Ireland has been denounced by the
leading British statesmen in the
House of Commons. Right Honorable
Alexander M. Carlisle, Privy Council
lor, said:
1T is not merely that the Govern
ment has made mistakes-gross, I'M
pardonable mistakes, of which they
were fully warned-itis that they have
endeavored to hide those mistakes by
shameless duplicity and infamous dis,
honesty"
The Archbishop of Canterbury, in
an address in the House of Lords, on
February %, 1921, said:
what is now being done is exactly
what we condemned the Germans fol
in Belgium. When the Germans perpe
trated cruelties in Belgium it was sale
| that the German people could not be
blamed, and the reply was that the
German people acquiesced. Exactly
| the same charge can be brought
against the British people if they &C
quiesce without protest in what is be
ing done in Ireland today"
Viscount Bryce, former Ambassa
dor to the United States, in letter
to the London Times on February 25
1921, said:
ireland is being treated as an enc
my whose population is presumed to
be hostile. We hear daily of cases in
| which persons are shot at random; OF
against whom no evidence is pro
duced, have been shot without trial
Many cases of houseburnings and wan
ton destruction, ard downright rob
berry, have been admitted"
Rev. Duncan c. MacGregor, Modera
| tor of the Presbyterian Church of Eng
| land:
For the good name of Britain is il
not high time that these crimes, com
mitted in the name of law and order
should cease? Voices of vastly great
er authority than mine have uttered
their solemn protest, as yet without
effect. I wonder whether the whole
Church of God cannot speak with unit
ed voice on so clear and crying a NOR
al issue as this"
Major-General Sir Frederick Maur
| ice:
'"The result is that our methods in
Ireland differ only in degree but not
in kind from the methods of the Ger
| mans in Belgium
Rev. J. Scott Lidgett, Honorable
Secretary National Council of Evan
gelical Free Churches Of Great Brit
ain, in an address before Assembly oil
Evangelical Free Churches in Man
chester, on March 10, 1921, said:
Even if force, organized, disci
plined, and under complete control
| were remedy, to give reign to law
less and undisciplined forces, to take
matters into their own hands, to shoot
| to burn buildings, to reduce the whole