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A copy of the resolution has been forwarded to the Prime Minister and another to the Home Secretary: “In view of the statements which have been circulated that there is a feeling in Ireland that failure to inflict the capital penalty on Roger Casement would be unjust to those Irishmen who have been executed in connection with the Irish Rising, we, the governing body of the Gaelic League of London, speaking on behalf of an important branch of an influential Irish organisation, to which Roger Casement has rendered valuable service, desire to record our conviction that these statements are utterly unfounded.