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Indeed for Ireland it may well
involve only further loss and more
active measures of repression against
Irish nationality, with Germany
impotent to keep Ireland, or
as was said to me yesterday
"quite indifferent to the Irish Cause."

It is the accumulating evidence
before me of that "indifference to
the Irish Cause" that gives me pause.

We Irish Nationalists are doing all
we can, in the Exceedingly difficult position
we occupy, to aid our chosen friend,
Germany. In America we are arrayed
openly on the side of Germany, and whatever
good to your country may eventually come from that attitude
of ours, you owe it to one thing alone
-- the faith of Irish Nationalists that Germany
would sincerely champion the cause of our
country if success favoured her arms.