Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-09-07
REPRESENTATIVES IRISH
CAUSE AT PARIS FURNISH
DATA TO SENATE
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make representations or engage IN an
effort that might involve the sendins
of troops into Europe and know our
people would not want that. what !
am saying TO you is that we cannot
and under no circumstances could we
have at any time since we have paeh
here, do anything in this matter Oh
an official nature, bat | want TO say
to you that have the deepest synlpa-
thy for ireland and her cause. l kno"
1 speak for the others when say that
all we could do unofficially we have
been doing and will do
Regarding the presidents efforts 70
translate his announced principle of
elf-determination of peoples into the
neace treaty Mr.. Walsh, according TO
! the memorandum, quoted from the
resident addresses, saying millions
of people relied on them. In reply the
president said. the statement contin-
| ues:
Metaphysical Tragedy.
you have touch on the great meta
physical tragedy of today My words
| have raised hopes in the hearts or
millions of peop.e 1t is my wish that
| they have that; but could you mag
| inc that you could revolutionize the
| world at once, could you imagine that
! these people could come into that
at once"
81 can imagine them, if anyone de-
| MED it, struggling to come into 1t at
once, If it were denied in the place
where they expected they were to
have come and to have it settled def
nitely once and for all"
when / gave utterance to those
words was the presidents reported
reply, 81 said them without the
knowledge that nationalities existed,
which are coming to us day after day.
| OF course, lreland's case, from the
| point of view of population, from the
| point of view of the struggle 1t has
made, from the point of interest that
| it has excited in the world, and espe-
| cially among our own people, whom
| lam anxious to serve. is the outstand-
| ing case of small nationality.
| Feels Keen Disappointment.
| "You do not know and cannot APP
| preciate the anXieties that ! have eX-
| perienced as the result of these many
millions of people having their hopes
| raised by what / have said For in
/ Sldllte, LlIflt llltl lIlIlG Ittiot a tluO2-
ton here in accordance with these
| principles and l am met with the
! statement that Great Britain or
France or some of the other countries
have entered into solemn treaty OBJ
legation. | fell tham that it was not
in accord with justice and humanity;
and then they tell me that the break
ing of treaties is what has brought on
| the greater part of wars that have
been waged in the world.
"No one knows the feelings that are
! inside me while I am meeting with
| these people and discussing these
things, and as these things that have
been said here go over and over in
my mind, | feel it most profoundly.
1t distresses me. But | believe, as you
gentlemen do, in Divine providence,
| and | am in His hands. and / don't
care what happens to me individu-
| ally I believe these things and / know
that countless millions Of other people
| believe them"
In ending the conference, the presi-
| dent was quoted as saying of his mis-
/ sion to Paris.
u did not succeed in getting all
came after. ] should say that there
was great deal-no, I will put 1t
this way-there were a lot of things
| hoped for but did not get"