April 20, 1917.
DEAR GOVERNOR:
I just had a little talk with Sidney Brooks who says he has been in correspondence with Lloyd George and Lord Northcliffe with reference to the Home Rule question. He believes that just a little push by you in your private talk with Mr. Balfour would put over home rule. He says if you could bring home to Balfour the amount of American public sentiment which favours it and how a denial of it is working to the disadvantage of England in this country, it would make a great impression. He says after the war there will of course be a great and generous cooperation between England and this country; but that there will never be genuine cooperation between the people of America and the people of England until the Irish question is settled.
Sincerely yours,
TUMULTY.
The President replied to me in the following note:
DEAR TUMULTY:
Confidentially (for I beg that you will be careful not to speak of or intimate this), I have been doing a number of things about this which I hope may bear fruit.
THE PRESIDENT.
Mr. John D. Crimmins, a leading Irish sympathizer, addressed the following letter to the President:
Washington, D. C., April 28, 1917.