The Archive · 1930

THE IRRECONCILABLE

DE VALERA

San Francisco, Apr. 1

In a speech delivered here to-day, Eamonn de Valera, Irish nationalist Teader, declared that, despite its name of "Irish Free State," Ireland was not free.

Neither was Ireland entirely Irish, the Fianna Fail chief asserted, because it was compelled to contribute the equivalent of G.$20,000,- 000 a year to pension former British officers, and it_was also compelled to pay for the British destruction of Trish property in the Sinn Fein re-

Mr. De Valera reiterated that he could not consider the Trish to be a free people because titey still owed allegiance to the King.

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