SMALL NATIONS' RIGHTS
DE VALERA'S SPEECH. , CREATES DEEP IMPRESSION. (Press Association. —Copyright.) . (Received 10.20 a.m.) v Geneva, September 16. The Associated Press says that Mr. de Valera's fiery and almost religious delivery held the delegates rapt while he added perhaps the most striking* appeal yet uttered in the Assembly for • the rights of the smaller nations against imperialism. He came solidly against Signor Mussolini with a pledge that the Free State would support collective action. "By our own choice we entered the Covenant's obligations and shall fulfil them to the letter and spirit. If the sovereignty of the weakest is not respected; if there is picking and choosing when to apply the law, then the League is useless," he said. Mr. de Valera spoke with bitter irony of the Peace Conference which followed the war when settlement could have been reached because all parties were ruined and exhausted, and he appealed for the relaxation of the conservatism regarding colonial possessions before the slaughter began.
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King Country Chronicle, Volume XXIX, Issue 4747, 17 September 1935, Page 5
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