On the Edge of the War Zone From the Battle of the Marne to the Entrance of the Stars and Stripes
On the Edge of the War Zone From the Battle of the Marne to the Entrance of the Stars and Stripes by Mildred Aldrich Author of "A Hilltop on the Marne" "Told in a French Garden" To The Public The Friends, Old and New, Whose Persistent And Sympathetic Demands For News Of Us On The Hilltop "After The Battle," Inspired The Collecting And Editing Of These Letters, This Little Book Is Gratefully Dedicated
"I should never have dedicated my life to this great struggle
if I did not see at the end the crowning and the consummation
of our work--a free and independent nation."--(Ib.)
"We aim at nothing else than establishing a new nation upon
the map of Europe."--(_Dr. Douglas Hyde_.)
"If there is any man in this audience who says to us as
representing that Parliamentary movement--'I don't believe
in your Parliamentary ideas, I don't accept Home Rule, I go
beyond it; I believe in an independent Irish nation'--if any
man says this, I say that we don't disbelieve in it. These
are our tactics--if you are to take a fortress, first take the
outer works."--(_T.M. Kettle, M.P._)
"We want to carry on the work that the Fenians tried to do to
a triumphal issue. The Fenians stood for an Irish Republic,
and so do we. No policy which left England in control of the
Irish Nation could be regarded as final. There is only one
way, and that is to get the absolute and complete independence
of Ireland, free from English rule and English domination. The
Fenians did not go to the Prime Minister for concessions.
No: they started into arms, and if people of the present
day believed in that they should arm themselves to get
the independence of Ireland."--(_B. Hobson_, speaking at a
On the Edge of the War Zone From the Battle of the Marne to the Entrance of the Stars and Stripes by Mildred Aldrich Author of "A Hilltop on the Marne" "Told in a French Garden" To The Public The Friends, Old and New, Whose Persistent And Sympathetic Demands For News Of Us On The Hilltop "After The Battle," Inspired The Collecting And Editing Of These Letters, This Little Book Is Gratefully Dedicated