Show VAl A PLACES C J. J I I H CA CASE BEFORE U. U Lengthy L Lengthy Statement of Condi Conditions di- di ions Now in n Hands of Secret Secretary ry Colb Colby W. W 27 0 21 D By Universal Uni versal Is I's l By Service S Service By recourse to mill mill- tart tary and abandonment of ot of other her own on civil courts Great Britain h has s. s herself recognized the tho complete bi- bi breakdown of or her civil governments In Ireland according to the plea pica for or recognition rec ree- of the Irish republic laid before before be be- fore toro President Wilson by President Lamon Eamon de ra and now being con- con coni i t by the tate state department it was le learned officially today I r The he making history document part of the text of which Is mado public I f. f herewith for or the first tune time consists f of f seventy eight eight pages of legal cap g i tJ ize c. c It Jt sets forth the legal claims of Bf 1 the republic which the Irish have havo been F. endeavoring to lay formally ormall before tho American government for a number numbe t or of years WILSON QUOTED r 1 President Wilson to corn 1 cam com j was addressed by l de I Valera is himself one on of the chief au au au- I quoted on the Incontestable I moral right of the tune Irish people to govern themselves Some of tho the q quotations from the Americas I are as fo follows Jows lows Shall peoples be ue ruled i and domi- domi 1 even C In their their- own Internal infernal I r fairs ir by by- arbitrary by arbitrary and ld irresponsible irr i force or Lo by their own will and r J. J choice i r National aspirations must be bc respected re- re re respected peoples may now be domi- domi rC 1 and governed only b by their own own consent Self-determination Self is not amere a mere phrase Every people should be left leCt free to determine its own policy Its own way of development unhindered unI un- un l I threatened unafraid the little along j I with arIth the great reat rent and powerful PARALLELS R DRAWN t J I In further proof Irelands Ireland's moral I i rights rig virtually all the presidents of 11 I th the ft Y b 8 l 1 i 1 leis are drawn between the developments develop 1 I ments menti In 11 the American re revolution and andin and I in the lathe tho Irl Irish h revolution TheIrl d 1 tit Independence itself I Il t embodied em- em bodied in the appeal Considerable of ot the document Is devoted devoted devoted de de- voted to the establishment Irelands Ireland's I legal case case In attempting to convince I Ithe the American government on th that t I i point the president of oC the Irish republic republic re- re re-I re j public bore down principally upon the Illegality of or tho the British position in Ireland Ireland Ire Ire- land today based upon all alleged ged proof that the act of union was put through the Irish parliament with wilh the tho aid of British sol soldiers and that the a act at actor t or of renunciation by which England I recognized Ireland as not a dependency dependency depend depend- ency ency is still In force and effect I lega legally 1 CONDITIONS AT AT UNION v In depicting the tho conditions which the tho act lct of unions was forced I through the Irish parliament th the words I of pf Lord ord Plunkett arc are quoted for the American government as follows The act acl of the c Union was attempted attempt attempt- I C ed while our c country was filled with British troops whilst the habeas cor- cor corI I pu act was suspended while white trials by I tour martial court martial were carrying on Inman in Iman j I man many parts of of the tho kingdom whilst tho people were taught to think they no right right right-lo io meetor deliberate Th appeal carries numerous rous quotations quotations quota- quota lions from rom promises promise's s made b by Lloyd George in recruiting speeches that Ireland Ireland Ireland Ire Ire- Ire Ire- land would not be bo loft left l ft out of f self self- determination after aCter the war CIVIL PROCESS PROCESS' AT END In connection with the statement of facts designed to show the complete breakdown breakdown- of or the civil government in inI I Ireland as proof of or British incompetence incompetence I tence to rule Ireland the communication cation of or th the Irish president took tool opportunity opportunity op- op to review c of oC the so- so called English atrocities iK Iii Ireland It adds dds By their own act acl of or parliament Eng l and has ruled out all the English I courts throughout th the Irish republic resorting exclusively to mUar court court- and 1 the courts of the rep republic b- b lic lie are arc the only courts functioning o there thero toda today VV V In an an appendix to the appeal carr carry carry- log ing the ingall documents cited cited in in inthe the deValera de Valera argument nl the act ct of or renunciation tion Ion is reprInted is full fuH to together ether with much or of the act of the union I Excerpts t from documents in which witch President President- Monroe e I. recognized d t the South American republics make malte makeup up up the remainder inder of the tho I bulky paper |