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LEADERS OF 1916 RISING De Valera and Party Visit Graves IRELAND'S RIGHT AS SOVEREIGN STATE Press Association.—Copyright. Reed. Today. 11.30 a.m. Dublin. April 23—De Valera and several of his Cabinet eolleagues participated in a procession through principal Dublin streets to Arbour Hill Barracks in commemoration of the leaders of the 1916 rising' who were executed and buried in the barrack yard. De Valera, speaking at the graveside, said; "No words can fittingly commemorate these men exceot (he new proclamation restoring the Republic which they proclaimed, but we must at present content ourselves with the declaration that we will not rest until we have reached that goal. "Meanwhile we will yield no willing assent to any form or symbol inconsistent with Ireland's right as a soverpi?;n State.
"Let Us remove these forms singly until the Republic exists in fact."
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume II, Issue 227, 24 April 1933, Page 5
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