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Show MUNITIONS FOR PEACE By SIR HERBERT LAWRE.VC" British Munitions Magnate. TO SUGGEST because your company is engaged in the production of means of defense and of equipment required by the navy, army and air force that its directors desire to foster war is as untrue as it is unjust. The directors and shareholders know to their cost the sorrow and suffering war entails, the waste of human life and material, the financial finan-cial loss posterity must bear and the damage done to the economic structure of the world. Although armaments for the purpose pur-pose of national defense in your country constitute a great part of your company's production, the maintenance of peace is in the best interests of both your company and the community generally. IRISH FREEDOM By EAMOXN DE VALERA President of the Irish Republic. THERE is a very simple test as to whether we are free and t hat is to let the people of this island freely decide the question. ques-tion. Let there be a plebiscite of all the people in this country as to whether wheth-er they want to have their freedom expressed in the form of a repub lie. The majority of t lie Irish people do not want their country partitioned. parti-tioned. They want liberty to decide de-cide whether their own form of government gov-ernment should be monarchic or republican. re-publican. In 1021 the treaty was accepted under duress and threat of war and for no other reason. WNL' Service. |