Friday 23 May 2014 7:30 pm Belfast Unemployed Resource Centre 45/47 Donegall Street BT1 2FG
1. The Great Fraud of 1914-18
How Britain engineered a World War to destroy Germany.
By Dr. Pat Walsh
2. The Catholic Predicament in Northern Ireland
Volume One: Catastrophe 1914-1968
By Dr. Pat walsh
How the Northern Catholics who supported Britain's Great War and who made a great
'blood sacrifice' for it found themselves victims of a Great Fraud. And how they not only
got Partition but much, much worse – they got 'Northern Ireland'.
Author: Dr Pat Walsh
Chair: Mark Langhammer
Athol Books
Comments (3 of 3)
Jump To Comment: 1 2 3I was reading this but it got mislaid. I have ordered another but cannot recall seeing a list of sources.
There is an extract in it from a book written circa 1930 re Arthur Balfour's comments in 1909 but no index of sources.
If I am right in this is it not a serious deficit in the work?
Can anyone please clarify?
Regards,
John Kelly.
Source:
Thirty Years Of American Diplomacy, by Henry White and Allan Nevins, 1930.)
See http://www.politics.ie/forum/history/228652-true-causes....html post #119
See also:
http://www.politics.ie/forum/history/228652-true-causes....html post #219
The truth is always more complex and nuanced than some people would want us o believe, and that is very much true in the case of the 1914-18 war. I have read extensively on the topic and definitely come down on the side of all parties sharing the blame. Balfour's comments betray a certain attitude; however, there is no point in attributing too much weight to his words.
The origins of the war are too complex to reduce to Britain's warmongering. It is my belief that the conditions for war had origimated with Wilhelm 2 getting rid of Bismarck and the colonial competition that developed in the late 19th century, combined with the decline of the Ottoman empire; the stresses in Austria/Hungary; the rise of pan-Serbian nationalism, the naval race between Britain and Germany, the triple entente(Russia, Britain, France), the commitment to protect Belgium; the fear of a powerful Russia......................... I could go on.
Simple answers serve a simple mentality. Britain has blood on its hand; however, it is in very good company.
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