THE IRISH PRESIDENT

Marlborough Express, Volume LIII, Issue 187, 4 July 1919, Page 5

THE IRISH PRESIDENT

BE VALERA WBLCJOMED TO ': ~: BOSTON. "- ~ ' ;

.-,., [PMass AesociAMdN.] ":" Australian and N.Z. CaWe Association (Received July 4, .8.40, a.m.) NEW. YORK, July, 3. , The New- York Times's Boston correspondent states that De Valera was enthusiastically ..received by at least 40,000 people' at Fenway Park. .De Valera ; read an, address, In which he, appealed" to,; the United States to frame )-a. new. covenant for the League of; \Nations ; .v in ;,which Ireland will have a place among the free/nations of the world.

' The Mayor of Boston welcomed De Valera. ,>•.'..-;■-.' ■ ','■,'■ ', -~ ,■ '■

_ De-'Val-jra was, given, .an enthusiastic reception by the Lo\yer : House of the .Massachusetts Legislature. He addressed the gathering on the aims of tho Irish repriblin. .