AN EXECRATED FANATIC

Waikato Times, Volume 96, Issue 15034, 4 September 1922, Page 3

AN EXECRATED FANATIC

DE VALERA CONDEMNED. De Valera is in hiding, but his conduct is severaly condemned in the United States (says Public Opinion). “If de Valera believed his Fourth of July appeal to America would meet, with a sympathetic response he has only to read the leading American and Irlsh-American newspapers to learn how he is execrated in this country," says the Washington correspondent of the Morning Post. “In to-day’s issue the Gaelic American denounces the horrible work done in Dublin during the last few days, and. says while Irishmen were deluded, deceived, and obsessed with the idea that they were lighting for a principle, their fanatical leaders ‘were only engaged in an effort to advance the poltical fortunes of a charlatan whom Irish people had emphatically repudiated. “When de Valera appeals to IrishAmericans to stand by him, says the New York Times, he ignores the great revulsion of feeling which the Irish civil war has produced, in this country. Mortification and shame have taken the place among Irish-Americans of the old enthusiasm.’ “The New York Evening Post says: ‘No one can doubt that the blood and loss of last week are more upon the head of de Valera than any other man