Galway In Days Gone By
1921
Treaty perspective
This morning’s development in connection with the Irish Peace Treaty should be viewed in its proper perspective. Whilst Mr. de Valera has thought well to repudiate, in effect – for that is what his statement means – the agreement come to by his colleagues with the British Peace Plenipotentiaries, he says that “there is a definite constitutional way for resolving our potential differences”.
It is, to say the least, unfortunate that the five men who were given the plenary powers to negotiate on September 14 last, who worked patiently towards a settlement for weeks, who had the confidence of the whole nation, should have to face a new fight for peace on their return.
There can, of course, be little doubt as to the outcome of that fight, but we fear, as this morning’s “Independent” points out, that the crisis is likely to strengthen the position of the partitionists of the North East corner.
If the Dáil makes a decision in favour of Peace on a Wednesday, no one will question that decision; and it would be far better that this should happen than that there should be an appeal to Caesar at this critical period.
In all Anglo-Irish history there has been no such week as this. Following a period when hope swung back to the borderland of despair came the dramatic news that a Treaty of Peace between Great Britain and Ireland had been signed.
The news seemed too good to be true. It was almost unbelievable that a quarrel of seven hundred and fifty years had been solved in a night; that while people slept there had been established in a quiet street off Whitehall a Treaty whereby the shackles were struck from Ireland, and this ancient nation was left free to pursue her own destiny.
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