Answers to Correspondents

New Zealand Tablet, 22 September 1921, Page 23

Answers to Correspondents

J.L, (Wellington).—Thanks for loan of pamphlet. Strong but true. We need not worry. As the Italians say: Che sara —What shall bo shall be! Wir werden einmal siegen. S.T. (Napier).—(l). Barton, Childers, Blythe, Hobsoh are among the Protestant Sinn Fein leaders. Griffiths is a Catholic. (2) The arrival of Asquith stopped the massacres. Maxwell’s last victory in 1916 was to drag Connolly from his hospital bed, tie him up on a chair and shoot him. (3) Yes, they were followed all over Ireland and not one murderer escaped. S.M.A. (Westport).—Having answered your question we destroyed your letter and do not remember the name now. Please do not take it for granted that the editor can remember anything. S.M.O. —For your information we mention a note we came upon this week. Algernon Blackwood in John Silence says that a spiritist might explain cup-tossing by saying that doing some silly, nonsensical thing fixes the mind without putting a strain on it, and thus leaves the subliminal consciousness free to act. That is quite clear, isn’t it now? Critic. — nonsense about a truce amuses us. If the daily press continues” to misrepresent Ireland, do you think we and others are going to remain silent because a few people cry “Truce! Truce!”? The truce is between the fighting men and there is no reason in the world why that fact should prevent anybody who wants to reply to the day-lies from doing so. We never heard a more unsound proposition than that the Self-Determination League should become inactive at the very time when its activities “might be of most value. Instead of being silent it ought to be bombarding the British Government from all parts of the 'Empire with reminders that honor binds the Empire to keep its pledges. Stir up your branch and the other branches until they rival Otago and Southland, which, notwithstanding their small population, have done as much as all the rest of New Zealand combined for the League. In fact as. far as numbers go we are the only branches'that count for much.