DE VALERA'S TREATY

Evening Post, Volume CIII, Issue 3, 5 January 1922, Page 7

DE VALERA'S TREATY

SOME POINTED REMARKS

<T0 BETTER THAN THE TREATY.

(ciriTi* rnaii A>»cUtioN.»-coMRiONT.t | gAIITIAMAK-MW SiALAH» CAIII A9IMIATKX.) (Received Jasuary 5, 9 a.m.) LONDON, 4th January. Mr. de Valera is to give notice in the I)ail Eireann that he will propose a motion that, as the Irish Treaty does not reconcile Irish national aspirations and her association with the British Commonwealth, he will propose a new ,• treaty of amity and association. Mr. de Valera will submit the text of the Treaty- When he moves the motion. Mr. M'Cabe resumed the debate. He said the rejection of the Treaty would be a criminal incitement to national suicide. They should not vote against it, because of revenge: for wrongs done in the past. The ''Document No. 2." which Mr. de Valera proposed to submit, contained all the objectionable features of the Treaty. Mr. de Valera .protested against references to a document which had not been put forward. , Mn M'Cabe replied that it should not be suppressed. Mr. de Valera said it would have to be introduced as an amendment, but those who favoured the s Treaty insisted upon a direct vote, on approval. He gave notice that he would insist on his rights, and he would introduce Document No. 2 to-morrow as an amendment. Mr. O'Duffy, Coirimandev of the Republican Army, and member for Monaglimi, supported the Treaty, because, he said, only one or two of his five thousand constituents opposed it., He be~ lieved that their judgment was correct.