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Berlin,
8 April 1915
Private

Dear Captain Boehm,
With reference to our
talk yesterday afternoon the position
to my mind is this.

I am not disposed to go on with
the idea of the Irish Brigade unless more
serious efforts at cooperation are
displayed by those who would derive
the chief benefit -- both moral and
material -- from the step I should
be responsible for.

Once the Brigade is formed, even
if numerically only a handful of men,
and the Agreement on which it rests
published, it is Germany and the German
Cause and not Ireland or the Irish Cause
will derive practically all the benefit.