IN THE DAIL EIREANN.
NO ALTERNATIVE PROPOSAL, CA. and N.Z. Cable). (Received 9.10 a.m.) LONDON, Dec. 21. In the Dail Eireann M. Gavin Puffy supported the treaty. He said that it gave power to the Irish to control their own Government and (military, and increased the people's power to an extent greater -than ever before. They had the power to relegate the King of EnglandJo exterior .(darkness. The delegates at London found, he said, when >Mr Lloyd George threatened immediate war if they failed to sign the treaty .-and recommend it to the Dail Eireann that "it was not play acting." If they had not signed it fresh hordes of savages would have Ibeen let loose in Ireland. They had lost the republic in order to the people of Ireland. Be/Core they Rejected the treaty the people of Ire-, Jand must have a national alternative' and he saw no other alternative before them. , . '
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Thames Star, Volume LVII, Issue 15112, 22 December 1921, Page 5
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