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Show President Defends Signature Dtindalk, Ireland. Addressing a 'largo meeting here Sunday on the Anglo-Irish treaty, Arthur Griffith, president of the Dnil Eireann, declared that lie had signed the treaty because It secured the last ounce possible to get from England. Those who invited them to fight another round on the chance of getting more were simply gambling with the nation's life, he declared. "The treaty made Ireland a nation among European nations and masters in their own house," he said. "There was no alternative to the treaty (nit ruin." |