NOT JUSTICE
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DE VALERA'S » WAIL WILL NOT GO SUEING FOR CHARITY, HAT IN HAND SPEECH IN THE DAIL
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Rec. Gct. 20 5.5 p.m. Dunblin, Oct. 20. Mr. de Valera, reviewing the London negotiations, said it was possible to reach a comprehensive settlement of future relations. He had advanced claims which should he advanced whenever there was a question of arriving at an ultimate financial settlement. The^ discussion showed that the British Government was not prepared to admit Ireland's claim to justice. "Possibly," he said, "if we ha.d gone in the role of beggars, with our bats in our hands, asking for consideration and charity, there might have heen a disposition to make a modification in some mitigation of our claim, bbt simple justice they were not prepared to concede. They took their stand tipon inviolahility of the sacred documents of 1923 and 1926 and refused to budge from them." Mr. de Valera read a message from Mr. j. H. Thomas' statement arid said he coiicluded that the present British Government was pressed forward by eertain anti-Irish feeling in Great Britain, supported by the attitude of a minority in the' Fre'e Sthte, which was not prepared to examine the position on its merits or yield to the claims of justice.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 359, 21 October 1932, Page 5
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