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Show IRISH APPEAL TO WlfSON AGAIN Desire President to Aid in Settlement of Long Standing Question LONDON, Nov. 12. The Irish party today issued an address appealing to President Wilson to aid In a settlement of the Irish question in accordance with his principles that all nations, large and small, have a right to free determination of their own form of government. A demand de-mand in this respect made in the house of commons today was voted down. "Can anyone doubt," says the address, "that the nation of Ireland comes under the category of small nations for whose rights you so eloquently plead, or that the present government of Ireland by Great Britain, against the will of Ireland, Ire-land, conies under the scathing condemnation condem-nation yOu have given to such - exercises of wrong? "We claim that the war must be observed ob-served from your standard of broad-vis-ioncd .instice, for the creation of a new world of freedom everywhere in all nations; na-tions; that the war Is to build up a new world that is safe for democracy; that this fact, an issue of the war, makes the liberation of Ireland, as well as of other small nations, a duty in which the asso-ciated asso-ciated powers have a right to a voice. "Every national question today Is international in-ternational unless the world is to abandon the league of nations to maintain in 'the futu re peace and .universal justice. "We implore you not to relax your efforts ef-forts to make the war not a mere triumph of nation over nation or of armies over armies." |