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''Sir Roger Casement'' is a letter written by [[Arthur Conan Doyle]] published in [[The Daily Chronicle]] on 30 november 1914.

== Sir Roger Casement ==
[[File:the-daily-chronicle-1914-11-30-p8-sir-roger-casement.jpg|thumb|300px|right|[[The Daily Chronicle]] (30 november 1914, p. 8)]]

'''To the Editor Daily Chronicle.'''

Sir, — I am sure that you are wise to use no stronger term than "infatuation" for Sir Roger Casement's journey to Berlin. He was a man of fine character, and that he should in the full possession of his senses act as a traitor to the country which had employed and honoured him as inconceivable to anyone who knew him. He had, it is true a strong prepossession in favour of Germany before the war, but this was due to his belief that she was destined to challenge the Monroe doctrine, which Casement bitterly resented as being the ultimate cause of all that Putumayo barbarism which he had officially to investigate. I may say that I disagreed with him upon this subject, but in all our discussions I have never heard him say a word which was disloyal to Great Britain. He was a sick man, however, worn by tropical hardships, and he complained often of pains in his head. Last May I had letters from him from Ireland which seemed to me so wild that I expressed fears at the time as to the state of his nerves, I have no doubt that he is not in a normal state of mind, and that this unhappy escapade at Berlin is only an evidence of it. On the face of it, would any sane man accept an assurance about Ireland which had obviously been already broken about Belgium?

:: ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE.
: Windlesham, Crowborough, Sussex.

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