The Freeman’s Journal¹ reports on an interview given by Frederick Edwin Smith to the Boston Post on January 14th, while in the United States. He is quoted in the newspaper :-

Nothing ever me greater delight than the execution of the traitor Casement

As Attorney General for the British government, he led the case for treason against Roger Casement in 1916.

In the same interview he states:-

It would be unwise at this time to try to enforce conscription in Ireland  since, unquestionably, it would precipitate riots.

 

¹ Freeman’s Journal, February 13, 1918, p2