In the course of a speech at the reception to Archbishop Mannix, at Washington on July 26, Mr, de Valera said that he would be w ing to recommend to the Irish people that they agree to a stipula-~ tion with the British Government "such as that of the first Article of the Platt Amendment." The Platt Amendment, so called from its author, Senator Platt, of Connecticut, was incorporated in the onstitution of Cuba after the war with Spain as a condition pre cedent to the withdrawal of Amor-, ican troops from Cuba and the recognition of the Cuban Republic The Article provides that the Government of Cuba shall never enter into any, Treaty or compact with any foreign Power which will impair the independence of Cubs. nor permit any foreign Power to obtain, by colonization for military or naval purposes, lodgement, in, or contro) over, any portion of the island. If the British Government would agree to a peace on these terms Mr. de Valera said that he would gladly. devote himself to "fostering the same good relations between Ireland and Britain as exist between Ireland and the rest of the world."
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