The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-12-07

Rev. Dr. Herbert Brown, pastor of Olivet Congregationa1 church. | II hope that the new plan for the Irish state will work out very hap pily."
 Attorney T. M. Cullinan, chairman of the Valera reception committee:
 ''The present leaders of the Irish ; movement have shown themselves to be remark a ble men, They are fami- liar with all the conditions and I know they have accomplished the best re suits obtainable for the Irish people, l personally feel it is a most fortunate solution and hope that it will end Irish trouble for all time."
 Patrick McGee: T think it's a grand thing and what we have been waiting for for 8 long time.''
 Superintendent of Police Patrick Flanagan asked how he. felt about it said: T feel very we'll for an Irish with it.
 Rev: Donald MacQueen, pastor Of the First Baptist church: T haven't had time yet to read the terms of settlement so naturally I can give you no opinion on it yet.''
 Dr. William Horace Day, pastor of the United Congregational church: | '4Personally, I am very happy in deed. It does look as though this age long feud could be settled on the basis of Christian cooperation and justice. The whole situation looks so promising that I am going to ask | the people of the church to give and at the Forum on Sunday and I | hope to arrange some presentation of the whole matter at the Forum as a sort of prelude to Walter Camps 1 address,
 Mayor Hy1an of New York said: The creation of the Irish Free Staite' means the recognition of Ire Canada; it means the withdrawal | of military forces from Irish soil l and the end of the piti1ess slaughter which has resulted from the guerilla 1 peace for Ireland in which many will see the dawn of peace for all the | world.
 1 Martin H. G1ynn of Albany, former 1 Governor of New York, said: 1 In February last I went to Rome and there met many men, among 1 others Archbishop Mannix, devoted | to the cause of Irish Freedom From Rome Archbishop Mannix | and I preceded to London. There saw Lloyd George and in inter views with him and with President 1 DeValera I was in humble fnstru- I ment of arranging the meetings be- | tween these two men.
 | I feel proud of the result of these 1 interviews ana or the. AuIlD1e pdI | I played in the matter.
 Senator La Toilette CWis.) said he hoped the news was authentic | Should an hitch arise in the negotla- tions with Ulster, MT. La Toilette an- | nounced that he would press for vote on his resolution expressing the sense of the Senate for the recogn1- | ton of the Irish Republic. | Senator David L. Walsh (N1ass.) ,, who has been one of the leaders of | the Irish sympathizers in the senate, | said: s'I am sure that friends of the 1 Irish cause in America will receive | the news that peace has been reach 1 ed with exceeding great joy. While | all American sym pathizers have de- i sired the fullest possible measure of | independence for Ireland, yet they l have generally taken the attitude that the people of Ireland, who have had Ito bear all the burdens losses that tfheir struggle necessarily exacted, were i the best judges of what was accepta- l b1e, could be demanded and finally | achieved.
 Americans should rejoice because 1 this sett1en1e ent will remove various ! phases of thm issue from American political questions. It is only natural that large numbers of liberty loving Americans should view international and domestic questions from aspects which were reflected through the struggle of peoples in Europe fighting for freedom. A tranquil state of mind and g. keen interest in local problems is difficult to maintain when @, race which is closely associat- ed with America life is being exter- minated by war and famine"
 Denis Mulvihin. ex-mayor of Bridgeport: 'I think it is too soon to express an opinion The time to talk will be later when all the facts are known"
 Lawrence T. Gallagher. exalted ruler of the Ellzs: Prom the little have read about the new plan tt has struck me that the idea Is fine, for 1t will make Ireland the same as Canada and the Canadian people are very well satisfied with their govern ment. I talked with many of them this summer. especially on that sub- ject and they said that they felt very free and not at all under the English yoke"
 Mrs. James Grady, treasurer of the
 American Auxiliary of the Irish White
 Cross: 'I think the new Irish Free State Is flne.'
 George H. Wood. grand president ! of the Sons of St. George of the State , of Connecticut: "I think that the } Irish free state is a grand ard glor , ious thing, I think that if the plaT . that there should he some sort of z big 5olification meeting between the
 Irish and English societies of the
 state to bridge over any past feeling:
 which might have been between then and to make them all friends, think that the Irish people will accep' l this fine p1an,''
 ONLY ONE BIDDER,