STUDIED EINSTEIN

Waipa Post, Volume XXIV, Issue 1576, 20 November 1924, Page 2

STUDIED EINSTEIN

The release of Eamonn de Valera and Austin Stack, leaders of the Irish Republicans, from Arbor Barracks, has been well received in all quarters (says the Dublin Post). The Independent welcome the action, and believes it will be approved by the country. It says: “The common desire is to bury bitterness and secure unity among ail sections willing to work for Ireland’s prosperity.” “The Freeman’s Journal,” referring to the proposal of the De Valera followers to repudiate the national loan, declares that “It would not be moral for De Valera to keep silent if those are his ideas.” It adds: “One cannot be sure that De Valera, as before may not be resolved to try another round.” De Valera, from the time of his arrest while speaking in an election campaign last August, has been kept in strict confinement, and until very recently, was not allowed even a visit from his wite. He was. however, permitted the use of books and writing material though every precaution was taken against h s communicating with his colleagues outside the prison.

Manifestations have been issued from time to time by his deputy, P. J. Rutledge, a former member of the Dublin Parliament, but there is no means of ascertaining how far De Valera is committed by what was said or done during his imprisonment. The Republican Party, since De Valera’s “cease fire” order in May, 1923, has concentrated on ordinary methods of political controversy, and has sought to obtain a majority of the electors by argument. None of the 44 Republican Deputies returned in the last elections for the Da.il Eireann has taken a seat, and there is much speculation whether the release of De Valera will lead these men to reconsider their attitude. De Valera’s health is said to be good; he devoted his enforced leisure to mathematical studies., especially of the Einstein t l ' ’~ -