IS IT THE DAWN?

"Though refusing all interviews De Valera asks 'Topical', Exclusively, to issue his peace message to the whole world. THE MESSAGE. 'Ireland is fighting solely for the right to live her own life in her own way. She loves equally all her children and she needs them all'.

'And Oh! it were a gallant deed
to show before mankind,
How every race and every creed
might be by love combined?
Might be combined, yet not forget
the fountains whence they rose.
As, filled by many a rivulet,
the stately Shannon flows'.
[Signed] Eámon de Valéra July 4 1921".