POPE REFUSES
INTERVENTION FOR I.R.A. MEN
LONDON, February 8,
I The "Daily Telegraph's" Vatican City correspondent says it is understood the Pope's intervention was sought on behalf of the I.R.A. prisoners, Barnes and Richards, but his Holiness refused on the ground that they had had a fair trial, while the crime could not be justified nor extenuated even by the excuse of a patriotic motive. A New York message says I.R.A. sympathisers invaded the closed World's Fair grounds, lowered to halfmast the Eire flag, and laid a wreath in the Irish pavilion in sympathy with Barnes and Richards.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIX, Issue 34, 9 February 1940, Page 6
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