I have referred here to the Diaries, On 6 December I published an entry for October 23 1914 which proves beyond doubt that the story about how Britain sleepwalked into war with Germany in 1914 wa, and remains, a damnable lie.
The heading was “HOW BRITISH DELINQUENTS PREPARED FOR THEIR WAR ON GERMANY.”
The term “Delinquents” was either that of the Lord Chancellor, Lord Loreburn, or of Scott himself and referred Prime Minister Asquith, Foreign Minister Grey, Chancellor of the Exchequer, Lloyd George, First Lord of the Admiralty Churchill, and the Minister for War, Haldane,
At the dictation of Loreborne Asquith, Grey,Lloyd George Churchill and Churchill signed, with bad grace, a declaration that no military conversations with any foreign power should in future take place without the previous knowledge of the Cabinet.”
Asquith, whose face “went as white as a sheet” is revealed as a devious and cowardly scoundrel. Of that parcel of scoundrels Churchill was perhaps the only one with guts..
The Irish Party leaders Redmond, Dillon and T.P. O’Connor don’t come well out of Scott’s Diary, not that he seemed to notice. O’Connor, the newspaper proprietor would have had Irish publications critical of the Party’s support of the anti-German war subjected to Martial Law (and their Editors perhaps shot out of hand?)
O’Connor’s paper ballyhooed the exploit of Sergeant Michael O’Leary in killing 10 Germans, as if it was the greatest thing a Christian could do.
Redmond and Dillon, in their youth shared Scott’s espousal of Women’s Suffrage.
Redmond in 1913 said he had voted for Women’s Suffrage 30 years back, and later abstained on it. But from about 4 years previously he opposed it. Now that Asquith described female suffrage as a “National Disaster” he felt that as an ally of Asquith he must oppose it. He said that unlike in England, there was no demand for it in Ireland, except amongst a small minority in the cities. Besides, the whole attitude of mind inculcated by Catholicism “, that of reserve, retirement, modesty – was adverse to it.”
That same day Scott saw Asquith, who earlier had sent a message to him that he would be happy to discuss any isue with him except Women’s Suffrage.
John Dillon had also supported Women’s Suffrage in his youth but had also changed his mind for no good reason.
Scott was an early Zionist. There was scarcely an issue he had not considered nor an advocate for one that he had not met.
I would have thought that during the Decade of Remembrance his Diaries would have been cited by at least one commentator. He was a prime witness to so much.
He regarded himself as a democrat and a friend of freedom. Three years after Ireland’s electors established a sovereign republic he was instrumental in establishing a Vassal State accepting its vassalage from the English King’s Lord Lieutenant. It seems to me he was pious Humbug..
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