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Show oo VALERA ASSAILS WORLD LEAGUE IN ANADDRESS BOSTON, June 29 Eamonn de Valera, "president of the Irish republic" repub-lic" appealed to the United States in an address today to frame at Wa3h-ington Wa3h-ington a new covenant for a league of nations which would give Ireland a place among the nations of the world. The peac e treaty signed at Versailles yesterday, he said, was a mockery Speaking to ar. enthusiastic crowd of more than 40,000 persons which I thronged Fenway Park, the Irish lepd er measured his terms. He must be careful what he said in this country. ' he explained. His lieutenant, Harry J. Boland, was more direct. "We are herp to plead the cause of I Ireland." said Mr. Boland. "We have no wish to interfere in American pontiles pon-tiles but we do ask vou not to nut your name to i document which w.ll perpetuate the s'avery of our peopli " Ho added- "We will guarantee in Ireland tbat there will be no peace until Ireland is free." The appeal brought response fiotu I United States Senator Walsh of Massachusetts, Mas-sachusetts, who asked Mr. de Valora to take back to Ireland the word tbat the senate already was pledged to support sup-port the aspirations of the Irish people and that they could "depend upon it that the United States will nenr j place an obstacle in the way of Irish ; independence " Mr de Valera said in part-"I part-"I do not fear for a moment fh;.' America will m.ike shuttlecocks ol 'our affairs. I know your people .'re united on the Question of liberty md lit was sweet to my ears to hear Ireland's Ire-land's cause pleaded by Americana like Senator Walsh and Major Kin-caid. Kin-caid. Peace was nominally signed between be-tween the two great combatting sides yesterday. Peace! Peace that gives us twr nt new wars instead of the one that it nominally ends "Does it not already seem a mo?k i cry and a. mockery it will remain unless un-less America takes up the responsibility responsibil-ity for the moral leadership of the world to which her consistent tradi lions, no less than the aims she set herself in entering the war, entl le her. "The present opportunity is nevf r likely to recur. If America disappo'.rts then the right minded, the good, the just in the world will be thrown bok to a cynical and sullen despair. Democracy De-mocracy dies or else goes mad "A new 'holy alliance' cannot save democracy A just league of nations Founded on the only basis on wharh it can be just the equality of right among nations, small no less than great- can. America can see to it that such a league is bet up and set up now. "Ireland offers herself unreservedly n that case. league of nations and covenant for a league of nations can De framed in Washington as well as n Paris Now i? the time to frame it -it is not enough to destroy; vou must build " oo |
