"The Nation" and Ireland.

Eamon de Valera was a frequent visitor in the office of "The Nation" when he first came to the United States in 1919 to plead the cause of the Irish Republic. In those dark days of the struggling republic "The Nation" made its pages a forum for uncensored discussion of Ireland's wrongs. But "The Nation" came closest to Ireland in 1920-21, in the darkest days of the Black and Tans, when it proposed the formation of the American Committee of One Hundred for the investigation of atrocities in Ireland. In 1920 when William J.M.A. Maloney had his heart aflame with a fire that inspired everyone. The United States, he said, could force England to change its policy. But no paper in the United States that could command respect would dare to take the lead—except "The Nation."