Norwich bulletin., 1921-03-17

not now in circumstances like these? Never, perhaps, as by dying in such a cause as Ireland's could we do so much for the world
 England may try to contend that men like those executed in Mount Joy were murderers. She will find it much harder than she imagines to get the world to ac- cept that view"
 The volunteer who conducted the cor respondent to MT. De Yalera's residence said that despite the protests of his friends, De Valera persisted in working strenuously daily from seven o'clock in the morning until eleven at night.
 The interview was complete surprise Until fifteen minutes before it took place, the correspondent had no intimation that it would Joe accorded.
 Twice after leaving the house the cor respondent was held up and examined, first by members of the Irish republican army. within sight of the presidents res idence, and, second, fortuitously by the military.
 When he was asked if he intended to | issue St. Patricks Day message, partic- ularly to the people of America, Mir. De Valera said:
 T think the people of America under
 
 world have not yet realized that it is might and right contending in this awful struggle-if they are left cold when it is | so evident that it is a great principle al stake, for which millions of the bravest of many countries lost their lives in the | late war-it would be futile to endeavol to move them by mere words Those whom midnight assassinations, callous executions, wanton shootings,. torturings | lootings, devastations failed to touch. nc message could affect. Those, will continue to dream, perhaps, of some future day when justice and right shall reign, but without that vigorous concrete aid which alone could make their dreams come true | For the past four or five years wt have been appealing to and conscientious ly trying to mobilize the moral forces oi ! the world. Our experience has been tha those loudest in the appeal that we should trust moral forces alone are precisely those who show the least inclination tC give us practical aid by their actions. An I my brothers keeperT I fear, is lonl going to remain the philosophy of man kind"
 Denying that there was any weaken ing in Ireland's power to resistance, D. Valera continued: '"The republicans 0 | Ireland, that is, three-fourths of our peo pie, realize that since death. is inevitabl there is no way it can come so well a in the grand defence of the. most sacre, human rights. There is nowhere ol earth a purer or more unselfish struggle It will be persevered in with the sam courage and fortitude as shown by. tn early Christians.
 i Brute force and lies, by which you Hamar Greenwoods and their like ar masking, it, will avail only for a tim, The Roman emperors did not win in thei contest-England won't win in hers" MT. De Valera declared there. was n truth in the rumors of overtures for
 truce or peace or that the Dali Eirean had laid down new conditions. There ca ,, be peace tomorrow if England would sim ply refrain from her aggressions," he as serted. "We had established a peaceft constructive administration and were sci ting a noble example to the world of government based upon consent and dt veloping our trade and industries, whe
 Mir. Lloyd George loosed upon us his mul
 der horde. blooded upsby official instigs | tions and sedulously infiamed with Z regular weekly bulletin of calumny an
 hate.
 Against this horder we will nevt 7 cease to defend ourselves to the utmo. I of our power
 l Questioned as to whether the offer f full fiscal autonomy would induce a, t ceptance of the partition act, he replied
 The partition act Is the act of fo