Letter from Harold Spender [(1864-1926), journalist and politician], stating that he is being pressured to publicly promote enlistment or else support [military] conscription; expresses his disagreement with recruitment for [British] defence of France and Belgium. Spender expresses anxiety about lack of parliamentary action on [Irish] Home Rule Bill [suspended at this time]; states that [Henry Herbert] Asquith, prime minister, fears reproach on the issue from [Edward] Carson. He argues reinstating the Bill would gain 100,000 Irish recruits; condemns British deployment of Indian troops.
Letter from Harold Spender to C.P. Scott
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- Dates of Creation31 Aug 1914
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