Norwich bulletin., 1919-06-24
Greeted President of. the z Irish Republic
Followers Were Wildly En- thusiastic at the Waldorf Astoria, New York.


 Sim Fein Irish republic" emerged dramatically tonight from the seclu- sion in which he had kept himself since his arrival in the United States. In statement to the press at the Waldorf Astoria, where he was greeted by wild ly enthusiastic followers. he declared he had come to America ito speak for the Irish nation"
 He declined to tell how he reached America, but said he came here from Boston several days ago. It was stated has been living at the Carmelite priory in East Twenty ninth street.
 His secretary. H. J. Roland, said that while in Boston De Valera endeavored to arrange an audience with Cardinal OConnell, but did not see him. Prior to that, he said, he was in Philadelphia, where he saw Michael J. Ryan, who was member of the Irish peace dele gation to Paris, and pr. Patrick J. Me- Cartan. He declared De Valera had visited Baltimore. where he saw Car dinal Gibbons, and Washington, where he met several United States senators. He said that he also paid visit to his | mother in Rochester.
 As MT. De Valera stepped from an l automobile a crowd of several hundred 1 persons in the street cheered him and a few frantically waved the flag of the l Irish republic, One aged Irish woman finely attired, threw her arms around l De Valera's neck. The police forced l the onlookers aside to make a passage way for the Sim Fein leader. He bowed his thanks as he entered the l hotel. Inside the Waldorf, many Irish men and Irish women. including mem
 bers of the Friends of Irish Freedom | a number, of clergymen and two Ben- l galese from British India, had gathered | to meet him.
 | In the party that brought him to the hotel were Justice John W. Golf, the Rev. Peter E. McGuinness, assistant general of the Carmelite order, his
 host; Justice Daniel F. Cohalan. Jus
 tice P. J. Hendricks, Justice Edward
 J. Gavegan, Major Eugene F. Kincaid former congressman and ex-sheriff O
 Hudson county, N. J.; John Devov editor of the Gaelic-American; Shamu O'Sheel, the poet; David O'Connor 0 the editorial staff of the Sim Feil daily paper in Dublin; Judge Jerom J. Rooney, Dr. c. J. Mcguire. Papa
 Count Thomas Hughes Kelly and Col
 onel Thomas B. Fielder of Atlanta, Ga
 who defended Jeremiah O'Leary in hi
 recent trial.
 Mir. De Valera was accompanied als
 by four Irish members of the Britis parliament-Diarmid Lynch. secretar of the Friends of Irish Freedom, wh represents South East Cork; Liar Mellowes, representing West Meath
 Dr. Patrick J. McCartan. representa- Kings county, and Mr. Roland. repre- Senting South Roscommen.
 Fl He read his statement to inc pres He desired. he said. to express the as . pirations of the Irish people exactly a
 he felt them and mot as British pro
 pagandists" had been quoting him f1 ! 1 the American press His manner ( I delivery was impressive but not e1o |, quent.. He said he did not purpos campaigning the United States i
 the Irish cause but that he might g
 to Washington and elsewhere Aske 1 if he had been invited to address tt ' United States senate, he said he ha n not.
 e T come directly from the people Q Ireland to the people of America. cor : vinced that the American people, an
 consequently the American goverr e ment. which as a government of u 2 people ought to reflect the peoples wi if will never consciously connive at s allow itself to be made party to u a suppression of the natural God-give V right of the Irish nation to it's libel q ty,' Mr. De Valera read from his stat, e ment.
 s He declared the degree of unanimii
 obtained in Ireland for the declaratie il of a republic was higher than elaine = by the American colonies when tho ! declared their independence" al a higher than that by which your ON is glorious union and constitution we
 esta blished.''
 e Had complete unanimity been il 2 | sisted upon as precedent to your il e dependence, as some people pretend Ie belieev it should be insisted upon n the recognition of ours" he declare " you would not be today the greate 2 nation on earth. but merely thirtet
 miserable colonies with your peop
 kept permanently divided by the i
 trigue of English statecraft into O V posing and contending groups England, he declared. had ''col le trived artificial famines recurring IT every decade" in Ireland to keep t n population down, driving thousands d Irish from their native land. et Tt must surely be a source of pri le to you" Mir. De Valera concluded. d it is source of hope to us, to ref1e IT that never have you undertaken st cause that you did not bring it to u n umph The Latin nations as well j. Poland, Hungary and Greece are nc
 free states. Ireland, the one remaini l. white nation in the slavery of ali e. rule will similarly be free unle l. Americans make scraps of paper
 their principles and prove false to t l. traditions their fathers have hand to down to them.'
 of A despatch received by Mir. De V m lera from Washington tonight stat
 that the Irish National Bureau" h
 announced the appointment of form
 Justice John w. Golf of the New Yo
 state supreme court as director of 10 nationwide campaign to be conduct vd in the interest of freedom for Irelal