New-York tribune., 1922-12-10
English Irish
Friendship Is
Healy's Ideal
De Valera Has Tried 10 Cut
Couniry's Throat for a
Hopeless Ideal, Declares
Erin's Governor General
Hopes to Pacify All
Less Than | =. c. of POpu.
laiion Oppose Treaty, but
They Are Armed, He Says
By Ware B. Wells


Copyright 1899. N-w Yofh Tribune Inc
LONDON. Dec. g.-li begins 70 look
~ bis own appointment by tho King
on tho recommendation Of the proyi-
slonai Government rs the hrst Cover
nor General Of the Free State would
Be the ars. event IN Irish history Of
the la. two generations about which
Tim rsaly-nobody has ever been
known 10 call him anything but Tim
would have nothing ~ oil 20 say. A.
tie Kirg's representative he IA not
supposed % take On active, aggressive
part IN politics any more than the
Klag himsclf IS expected 20 intervene
directly in party politics hero In Lon
don.
But the whites. and sharpes. tongue
IN ireland could no, reasonably be
asked 20 keep silence 10 tho most
memorable moment in Ia, oVn life and
Ia MS country. Perhaps just because
IN Parliament he Is o.s Of the great
a., sticklers for the conventions, and
vha. Healy doesn't know goout break
ing them when he wsnts 10 isn't
knowledge. Nevertheless, when ho was
Gnslly run down IN his hotel here or
the cye OF hls departure for Dublin he
was able. In breaking bis silence, 20
keep on the right side OF constitutional
propriety, irasmueh as there we're
still a few hours before bis appoint
ment was formally slated.
Aims Outlined by Hcaly
There was no indeeislon In tho nov
Governor sof.. drawling Munster
voice when the interviewer asked what
were his ideals in :aking once.
"siy FIRST ideal will be to restore
friendship between England and Ire
laa3." answered Hoaly. "It Is ny aim
20 bring the north and south 70 a BET
ter understanding and 20 DO every
thing TO prevent the continuance Of
internecirc conhie. between the Ma
tionalists.'
But he was mere cautious waen
asked whether there ware sny signs OF
the end Of the conhiet.
"weu, am hopeful thas there viii
Be improvement in the next few
months" This Is es far as lie Is ready
TO 20 as C prophet Of Ireland's future.
The Characteristic gesture Of empha-
ole which makes bis glasses roek on
tic bridge OF his nose came again,
however, when Healy declared; "rhe
fraction Of the population that Is oP-
posod 20 the treaty ls lees than per
cent. but that fraction Is armed"
FOR g hopeless ideal De Valera has
tried 70 cut his country's throat" That
vas one OF his striking phrases as be
figured up the destruction OF property
during the last summer.
With Clemeneeau, Hesly shares the
nickname Tiger and he has earned
Il Just as mueh rs bis French counter
part. had not seen hlm since bis
las. public appearance Just two years
ago IN Dublin, ~ defending counsel
when "The Freeman's Journal WAS
tried b. the British eoust-martial. The
famous Irish advocate, Who hae ng-
ured IN every cause eelebre, political
ard criminal, heard II Ireland Tor the
.as. twenty yoGrs, is now sixty-seven
years old, but he showed in the inter.
view the same remorseless mental
visor IS wben heard him putting
crown witnesses through a process Of
eross-exsminstion rot far removed
frola the third degree. IIealy has been
aghter all bis life, ard he Is ros
llscly 20 quit now that he has been
elevated 20 a post usually associated
with ornamental dignity-nos that his
new Job promises in the bCst event %
be exactly bed OF roses.
Record for Winning Fights
"Nr. Speaker" be once said n tAe
Commons, "thers are two united par
tics in this house; In one Of them"
Since nc quit MS Cork scat IN 1918
n favor of 4 Sian Feiaer-without c.
tho same tirae 9lumplng for Sian Fein-
ssm-Hsaly has not taken an active
part on the surface OF Irish affairs,
but he has been 4 powerful paller Of
strings behind the seenes and the chief
counsellor OF inexperienced members
Of the provisional government, one OF
whom is Kelvin o'HigSins. his nephew.