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General Richard Mulcahy, Free State Minister of Defense, introduced a bill into the Dail Eireann authorizing compensation to men wounded in the three periods of fighting in Southern Ireland. The three periods...
...Dail Eireann ? Free State Parliament?gave full consideration to the De Valera peace proposals. It characterized them as childish and irrelevant. Even Deputy Johnson, Irish Laborite, said: " I think too much importance is attached to a general election to find out the people's will. ... It should be obvious to De Valera that the people's will was very clearly expressed, not by votes but by conduct, action and acceptance of the Government Constitution and the jurisdiction of the Dail and the Senate...
...President Cosgrave, speaking in the Dail Eireann, said that he would introduce a bill to redeem the Irish...
...whichever party wins the next election. He pointed out that the Republicans would thus be spared the humiliation of surrender, and yet peace would be fully restored. Tom Barry, irregular leader, was friendly to the proposal. A motion in favor of its adoption was introduced into the Dail Eireann. But Kevin O'Higgins, Free State Minister of Home Affairs, rejected the Archbishop's plan. " There can be no truce on the basis of the proposals of the Archbishop of Cashel. There must be complete and unqualified acceptance of the right of the people to decide all issues arising...
From all appearances Ireland is in the unfortunate position of not knowing what she wants and being unhappy until she gets it. The last two days have seen one of the stormiest sessions of the Dail Eireann so far--a perfect maze of charges and counter charges from Griffith and De Valera intermixed with epithets of "liar" and "gunman", until both sides finally agreed to publish the documents of the London conference,--"before the elections so that no one is fooled" as De Valera expressed...