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...Eamon de Valera, President of the Irish Republican Government, sent a note to the Free State Government offering to negotiate terms of peace. The document, which looks like a free translation of Jean Jacques Rousseau's Contrat Social, does not, however, make any allusion to a surrender of arms-a stipulation which, as the Free State Government has constantly emphasized, must precede any peace parley...
...Irish Times, Dublin journal, said: " We confess that after a very careful study of de Valera's proposals we are not in a position to enlighten ourselves." The general anti-Republican opinion throughout Ireland is that it is an ambiguous document and needs a good deal of elucidation by de Valera before it can be seriously considered...
...accordance with a clause in the de Valera note, E. E. Aitken, Chief of Staff of the Irish Republican Army, ordered a " suspension of offensive " against the Free State...
...even in defeat de Valera intends to conduct a dignified retreat. He will have no "unconditional surrender." From the midst of the wreckage of his party, he proclaims once again the same principles which the Free State has rejected and which have embroiled the torn island for so long. This may be a gesture to save his face with his followers or the invincible cry of the fanatic whose "head is bloody but unbowed." But in any case his terms are impossible of acceptance...
...matter how the Free State govern-men may reply, however, the sun of rebellion is almost set. De Valera was the back-bone of the resistance and he has given up the fight; although it will doubtless take some time to clear the Irish fortresses of the irregular bands which are its plague spots. On the very day following that of the cessation of hostilities, the Dublin Railway station was blown up and a score of people injured; but from now on the Free State will have a fresh lease on life. It has recently applied for admission into...