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Identifikator:: 1837944032

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-232664

Document type:: Monograph

Title:: Lage und Entwicklung der landwirtschaftlichen Grossbetriebe in den östlichen Landesteilen

Place of publication:: Berlin

Publisher:: Parey

Year of publication:: 1930

Scope:: 146 S.

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: E. Zur Agrarlage in den östlichen Landesteilen

Collection:: Economics Books

[ 6 | Carson. He bought ships, purchased ammunition, and organised and drilled troops for the express and uncon- cealed purpose of opposing the British Government if it decided to give a complete measure of Home Rule to Ireland. “To the disgrace of that Government, he was allowed to go about his ordinary avocation unmolested. He was allowed to preach his sedition from one end of the country to the other without let or hindrance. He was permitted to inflame the minds of multitudes in Great Britain and Ireland. Why? Because he was a member of the pri- vileged classes of Great Britain. We know, too, that the very officers in the British Army threw their commissions in the face of the British Government rather than take part in putting down the rebellion which Sir Edward Carson was endeavouring to organise. They flaunted their com- missions in the face of the Government, and the Govern- ment said nothing, but took it as quietly as if it were a lamb or a sheep before its shearers.” Senator Lieut.-Colonel Sir Albert Gould (N.S.W.) joined with Senator Stewart in saying that it is deplorable that any British Government should have allowed people to openly arm themselves for the purpose of fighting it, as a certain section was permitted to do, just prior to the outbreak of the war. In Australia there appears to be no squeamishness about the enforcement of an Act of Parliament on a recalcitrant minority. The fervour of the Dominions’ response to Mr. Redmond’s appeal might fairly have been expected. But the great Republic which has heretofore abstained from direct interference in the question was, if possible, still more earnest in its demand for a settlement of the Irish problem on the basis of National Self- Government. It was, indeed, a rude awakening to the Unionists, who believed that Americans, apart from a few extremists of Irish descent, were either apathetic or hostile to Ireland’s claims. It is now nearly thirty years ago since Mr. Glad- stone declared that England's treatment of Ireland

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