The New York herald., 1922-05-26
ERIN AS NATION SEEN
BY MARSHAL FRENCH
Expects Troubles to End With
Island Assuming Place
England Wills.
JOFFRE HIGHLY PRAISED
Irving Bush Says Lawmakers
All Have Their Ears to
the Grouno.

Field Marshal Viscount French ex-
pressed himself last night as confiden-
that the Irish Free State will De able
and that it will assume the place among
the nations of the earth that England
has planned for It, 1t was the first
public statement the British warrior and
former Viceroy Of Ireland has made on
the Irish question since his arrival in
this country, and II was greeted by the
applause of a hundred or more foreign
newspaper men gathered at the annual
dinner of the Association of Foreign
Press Correspondents in the Hotel Bre-
WORT.
II was Viceroy of Ireland for three
years and an executive officer but now
/ am plsin Irish citizen said the F1eid
Marshal MY heart was in ireland
then and my home was there. My heart
and my home still are there.
II want every true Irishran to sup
mort the constituted authority in Ire
iand-to support law and order, to in
Sure even-handed justice to all classes
Of the population and to protect life.
property and labor. and to do every
thing that a citizen may to promote the
happiness and prosperity of the country
we all love so wei.
Tells Irish to Forget Past.
What is the use of indulging in re-
ordinations on one side or the other!
What good purpose can be served b.
looking backward? l urge you TO do ali
n your power to urge ireland to look
,orward and not backward-to look to
the dawn of new era rather than TO
the sunset of discord and strife.
IT have confidence in the men VINO
are at the head of the Government IN
Ireland and l believe that they will in
time cause Ireland to take the place to
which it Is called by His Majesty. the
King. We must blot out the cruel and
unkind past and support the Govern
ment Every true Irishman must help
the new Government in the difficult
tasks before it," s1Er
viscount French said he came to New
York as an ordinary globe trotter and
expressed himself as surprised at the well
come he received on all sides. He pro-
voked laughter by saying that the United
States seemed to be so solicitous for its
weaker brethren that 1t changed it's
constitution for the eighteenth time
The warrior said that when the story
of the world war is written it's most IL
lustrious pages will tell of the deeds of
the gallant French and particularly Of
Marshal Joffre. Speaking of war corre-
spondents he said:
HE is one of the most valuable ad-
1uncts Of an army. He has supreme
contempt for danger. The war corre-
spondent always goes forward"
Washington Is Responsive.
Irving r. Bush. president of the State
Chamber OF Commerce, said the Cow
ernment at Washington is more re-
sponsive to the opinions of its citizens
than any other Government in the world.
The position of the American Govern
ment. he said. is that all great Issues
such as the Genoa conference is de-
termined in the homes and in the shops
OF the United States.
Will Irwin proposed the toast to Wis
count French. He reviewed his work
during the war and concluded by CALI
ing him the pioneer of victory"
Frank /. Cobb, editor OF the World,
the last speaker, said the foreign policy
OF the United States is an "extraordi-
had been drawn into the two great
crises of Europe since Washingtons time
the Napoleonic wars and the world
war-and asserted complete dissolution
from European affairs Is impossible be-
cause of the economic interdependence
of the two continents.
Among those at the dinner were Oscar
Straus. Melville +. Stone of the Asso-
ciated Press. William r. Wilcox and
Sir Harry Perry Robinson of the London
Times. w. +. Bullock. representative
OF the Northciffe press, presided