Viereck's Volume 10 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1919 Excerpt: ...the moment for action. Never before have Ireland's opportunities shone so brightly. No matter what England does, no matter how she struggles here, how she lies and libels, England cannot crush the eternal truths the recent war has illustrated. And never can she convince the American people that the recent war was not one to crush one side and intrench or perpetuate the manifest infamies of the other. Ireland must be free. The Irish people have voted it. The Irish in America, if they do their full duty, can compel it. Britain is mighty yet, but mightier than England is the inexorable cry of Self-Determination" of "the rights of Small Nations," her own shibboleths, with which she induced her bravest and best to fight and die upon every battlefield of the recent war. While her own slogans are lingering in her people's breasts, while the dirt is still fresh on her sons' graves, while her oppressed working classes ire now clamoring for liberty, the Irish in America, side by side th Americans of other blood, honest Americans who don't be A NEW SPIRIT FOR THE VICTORY LOAN THE various Liberty Loans received our full support. When the campaign was in swing, we urged Americans of German descent to aid the Loan, "not for hate of Germany, but for love of America." Unfortunately, our motto was not adopted by many committees. The appeal of most posters was to the baser passions rather than to the spirit of love. Now, as the Dial suggests, that the victory has been won, the Victory Loan should be the occasion for the exhibition of a new spirit if the League of Nations is to be worth the paper it is written on. The Liberty Bonds were sold largely on hate. The appeal carried to the ear of the people by four-minute oratory, or to the eye of the peopl...