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Ireland.

I see well that the public statement
that the Irish soldiers have volunteered
for service in the Irish Brigade will
greatly influence public opinion
in Ireland, in America --. (in Canada even)
and elsewhere, and I see the great
value of this to Germany during
the war; but I do not equally see
the value to Ireland, now or later
as things stand between the German
government and Irish nationality.

You would gain everything; we
should give and perhaps lose
all.

I am aware that this is
in great part due to the military
necessities of the German situation; but
I am not sure (and it is here my
doubts come in so strongly) that it
is not equally due to the lack