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Show REVIEWS CAUSE Senator Phelan Sees No Handicap in League Covenant. NOT PARTY QUESTION Great and Worthy Cause j Should Not Be Disgraced. WASHINGTON. June 26 Assertions that the league of nations would handicap handi-cap the effort lor Irish freedom were denied in the senate today by Senator 'Phelan, Democrat, California. "Some prsons interested in the Irls.i cause," he said, ' have objected to article ar-ticle 10 because they fear it would guarantee the territorial integrity of the British empire This it does only with respect to 'external aggression.' Now, Irish independence can be won either by the voluntary act of England, Eng-land, a successful revolution or the intervention of a superior force from the outside, of these three avenues I to independence the league onlv stands ' in the way of the last. "If an Irishman tells me that he I would put Irish independence before the spectacle of a world bathed again ' in blood, the loss again of millions of lives, and the hunger, disease, privations, priva-tions, suffering and torture inflicted upon millions more, then I would say be has forfeited generous consideration considera-tion by an exhibition of unutterable bo flshness." Deprecating any effort to make Ir-; Ir-; ish freedom a party question. Mr Phelan Phe-lan srnd the Republicans could not claim credit for the resolution recently passed requesting a hearing for the I Irish delegates at Versailles. Mr. Phelan declared the solid Republican support ii few days ago of the Borah resolution asking the hearing for Irish i delegates "was intended to embarass the president." "It was also done I believe, to defeat de-feat the league of nations by exciting a false suspicion that article 10 prevented' pre-vented' internal revolution." he continued. con-tinued. "It is unfortunate that so great and worthy a cause should be so i rudely used as a vulgar means of winning win-ning votes b.v men whose previous ac tion would indicate that they have no real sympathy with Ireland." ' In conversation recently with President Pres-ident Eamonn tie Valera of the Irish republic " said Senator Phelan, "he emphatically declared that he trusted , Ihe Holy cause to w hich he had pledged pledg-ed his life and honor would not bo dragged into the mire, of American party politics." |