Omaha daily bee., 1920-11-29
Wilson to
Ignore Plea
OF Ireland
President Has No Intention
Of Granting Recognition
As Asked in Appeal of
De Valera.
Tests Not Satisfactory
BY ARTHUR SEARS HENNING.
Chicago Trihnna omaha Rec leaaed Xire.

BY ARTHUR SEARS HENNING
Chicago Tribune -On,ahs Rec Leased Wire
Washington, Nov. 28.-Presiden;
Wilson, it was learned today, has
no intention of recognizing Ireland
as an independent nation as resul,
Of th. appeal submitted to him by
Ermonn De Valera, president Of the
irish Republic"
The attitude OF the administration
will be based OIL the view that the
tests of recognition have not been
satisfied by the actual establishment
OF an independent government
De Valera sent his appeal to the
president following the Official as
sertion that it would not be enter
aimed by the state department. Mr..
Wilson transmitted it to the state de-
,artment where it awaits his in-
structions as to its disposition.
Whether the appeal will be re-
piled 90 remains to be seen. The
communications OF Martens, the
soviet envoy, never have been hon.
ored with a reply The expecta-
ton at the state department, how
ever, is that there will be either a
reply to De Valera or an official
statement setting forth the reasons
that recognition cannot be extended.
Wilson Quoted.
In his appeal De Valera has
quoted President Wilson literally.
the following being examples:
Shall people be ruled and domin-
ated, even in their own internal al
fairs. by arbitrary and irresponsible
iorce or by their own will and
choice?
National aspirations must be re-
spected; people may now be domn-
ated and governed only by their own
consent. Se1f-determination is not
a mere phrase.
Every people should be left free
to determine their own policy. own
way of development, unhindered. un-
threatened, unafraid, the little along
with the great and powerful"
De Valera sets forth the Irish dec
laration Of independence draws par
allels between the Irish and tn:
American revolutionary cause and
quotes nearly all the presidents OF
The United States in support of his
arguments. He asserts that there is
pale British civil government in Ire
lard, adding:
"Bv their own act of parliament,
England has ruled out all the Eng
lish courts throughout the Irish re-
public, resorting exclusively to MIL
itarv courts martial and the courts
Of the republic are the only courts
functioning there today"
Government illegal.
De Valera contends that British
government in Ireland is illegal be-
cause Great Britain renounced the
right to legislate for Ireland under
the Grattan resolution in 1882, while
the act of union subsequently was
put through the Irish parliament un-
der the coercion of 10000 British
soldiers. .
Precedents for the recognition OF
he Irish republic without interven-
ton" by America are cited by De
Valera in President Monroe's recog-
milton of the South American re-
publics. In all these cases, however.
recognition was not extended until
the Spanish forces had been COM
pletely expelled, independent gov
ernments, had been in existence for
several years and there appeared no
prospect of the mother country being
enabled to reconquor the states. Re-
plving to a protest against such rec
oenition by the Spanish minister.
Secretary of State Adams said:
Two Principles Involved.
an every question relating to the
> independence of a nation two prin..
ciples are involved, one OF right and
the other of fact; the former ex-
clusively pending upon the deterini-
nation of the nation itself, and the
latter resulting from the successful
execution Of that determination. In
-. conflicts which have attended
these revolutions the United States
has carefully abstaincd from taking
any part, observing wherever it was
a contest of arms, most impartial
neutrality. But the Civil war in
which Spain was for some years in
yofved with the inhabitants Of her
colonies in America has, in SUBJ
stance, ceased to exist.
Under these circumstances, the
government of the United States, far
from consulting the dictates of a pol
icy questionable in its morality.
Welded to an obligation of duty OF
the highest order by recognizing as
independent states, nations which.
after deliberately asserting their
right to that character. have main
tanned and established it against all
the resistance which had been or
could be brought to oppose it,"
In the case of ireland, it is the
lest last mentioned OF maintaining
an independent government against
British forces that is held wanting