BELLIGERENTS, NOT REBELS.

New Zealand Tablet, 14 April 1921, Page 23

BELLIGERENTS, NOT REBELS.

Apropos of the Irish situation, the following quotations will be of interest (says,an exchange): Dr. Johnson“ Did we tell the Irish we had conquered them, ; it would ;be above board.” But, “to punish them by confiscation and other penalties as rebels was monstrous injustice.” ,i

Ml Newman —“The Irish patriots hold that they never have yielded 'themselves to the sway of England, and therefore (never have been rebels'.” = i

vru‘l Fronde (History ■ of England) “The Irish were not to be blamed if they 'looked to Spain, to France, to any friend on earth or in heaven, to deliver\them from a power which discharged no single duty that rulers owe to* subjects.” I