The Archive · 1929

Sinn Fein as a Model Dee. 29

"The eve of 1930 in India is wonderfully like the atmosphere of 1917 in Ireland," is the opinion expressed by the well-known writer, Mr. J. L. Garvin, in an article in to-day's "Observer.

'He declared that Sinn Fein has increasingly become the model of the Hindu extremists. "The playing of the famous Irish melody, Wearing of the Green' at Lahore, be says, "was no freak. It was deliberately adopted as the anthem of the Congress, which implies an attempt to imitate the Irish model] right through and further if possi-Dle.""—Renter.

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