Guardian: 1921 Anglo-Irish Conference editorial

international | arts and media | other press Thursday October 12, 2006 19:39 by R. Isible

From the archives

The Guardian UK carries regular extracts from its archival editions. Todays is on the 1921 Anglo-Irish conference.

But when people - Mr. De Valera is, we fear, one of them - talk about Englishmen being "foreigners" and about England as a foreign nation, politeness alone prevents us from telling them that in our opinion they talk nonsense.