Show E nola 0 DECLINES ss PART IN BRITISH EMBASSY REFUSES TO participate IN THE IRISH INQUIRY AT washington declare aresi the only outcome of the in would be the spread of propaganda and evidence would de be of no value washington WashIng tou the british embassy line has notified the committee of one hundred investigating conditions in ireland that it did not approve of the purposes to be served nerved or the methods methodi to bo be followed in the tile committees hearings to be held field here and therefore it could not accept the committees invitation vi to be represented llie reply addressed to om aid garrison editor of the nation ho appointed the committee declared the only outcome of the tile inquiry woid would be the spread of kropa ganda and that there waa was nothing in tile composition of tho the committee itself to remove from it the idea that it aa not impartial or prejudiced in n alliance the embassy aleo also informed the committee through sir mr I 1 illard that while the british government would not withhold ith passports pas from any person wish ing to appear before the committee it niu must tit be understood that the british could not undertake to guarantee the safety of from personal attacks and und violence at the hands of sion reiners or loyalists upon their return to england and ireland the added ite its that it would be impossible for th thi committee to gather uny evidence eil dence of alue that could not be more readily obtained through gli the ordina I 1 P t N 14 1 4 cles U publicity operate un obstructed id cd in england and ireland |