Norwich bulletin., 1919-06-30
DE VALERA ADDRESSED
 4o000 PERSONS IN BOSTON

Boston, June 29.-Eamonn De Va lera, president of the Irish republic, ,"I appealed to the United States today to frame at Washington a new cove nant for a League of Nations which would give Ireland a place among the nations of the world The peace treaty signed at Versailles yesterday, he said. was mockery and would re- main so unless America drew up a covenant founded on the equality of right among nations. small no less than great'
 Speaking to an enthusiastic crowd of more than 40.000 persons which thronged Fenway Park, stands and field, the Irish leader measured his terms. He must be careful what he said in this country, he explained. as he read from his prepared address. His lieutenant. Harry J. Roland, a member of the Irish parliament, was more direct. We are here to plead the cause of Ireland" said MT. Roland. I've have no wish to interfere in American politics, but we do ask you not to put your name to a document which will perpetuate the slavery of our peo- pie"
 | He said the young Irish republic" asked America to finish under Presi- i dent Wilson "the proud work of eman- cipation begun by Washington" add ing We will guarantee in Ireland that 1 there will be no peace until Ireland is | free"
 T do not fear for a moment" he said, that America will make a shut | tlecock of our affairs I know your i people are united on the question of ! liberty and X was sweet to my ears to hear Ireland's cause pleaded by Americans like Senator Walsh and Major Kincaid, (formerly Congress man Eugene Kincaid of New Jersey)
 We in Ireland clearly recognize 2 1 he continued, that if the wrong turn 1 ing be voted. if violence be re-estab- ! lished in it's former supremacy, hu- manity is faced with a period of mis- cry for which history has no parallel and with series of irregular con- {, fiicts vastly more terrible than the haggled conflict now ended.
 Peace was nominally signed be- tween the two great comba tting sides yesterday. . Peace! Peace that gives us twenty new wars instead of the one that it nomihally ends!
 Does not it already seem a mock | ery--and mocliery it will remain .uu- | less America takes up the responsi- bility for the moral leadership of the world to which her consistent tradi- tions, no less than the aims which she set herself in entering the war, enti tie her
 "The present opportunity is never likely to recur. The idea of coin munity of nations. recognizing a com mon law and a common right, ending war amongst nations as municipal law has extended private wars amongs individuals, is today a possibility i America does what the people of tht world pray and expect America vii
 do. To lose this moment would be { disaster that it would be impossible tC
 repair
 If America disappoints, then thu right minded, the good. the just in tht
 world will be thrown back to a syni
 cal and sullen despair Democrac,
 dies or else goes mad.
 "A new holy alliance cannot say,
 democracy. A just league of nations founded on the only basis on whicl it can be just-the equality of righ amongst nations, small no less thai great-can. America can see to it tha such a league is set up and set Ill : now. She is strong enough to do s'
 and it is her right, in consequence o , the explicit terms on which she en
 tered the war. She will be backed III
 by the right minded of the whol
 world, by all but perhaps the schem , ing diplomats or the financial interest . that back them.
 Ireland offers herself unreservedl , in that case. A league of nations am a covenant for league of nations ca
 be framed in Washington as well a
 in Paris. Now is the time to frame , it is not enough to destroy; yo
 must build.'
 Senator Walsh in his address refer |, red to MT. Valera as the Lincoln c
 Ireland" and said he would take tn , shackles off Irishmen." If England will do for Ireland wha
 America did for the Cuban republit
 the Irishmen will grasp the proffere q hand of friendship" said Major Kin . caid. But if England refuses and of e fers the mailed fist, Irish manhood un Q der the leadership of De Volera wi ;, fight"