Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 81, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 January 1920 — LEADERS OUT OF HARMONY [ARTICLE]

LEADERS OUT OF HARMONY

Dublin Physician Says Retainers’ Acts Oppose De Valera V|ew. Dublin, Dec. 17.—Eamonn De Valera’s speeches in America with regard to the part played by Irish soldiers in the war have been read in Ireland with some surprise, and it is pointed out here that De Valera’s sentiments differ from those of his supporters. Captain M’Walter, a Dublin physician and member of the Dublin municipal council, who served throughout the war in the army medical corps, writes as follows in the Dublin Press: "All, the ex-service men, and there are over 40,000 of us, were pleased to find Mr. De Valera assuring his American audience that we fought for a principle and that Irishmen in the earlier days of the war rushed to the ranks in overwhelming numbers. But whilst Mr. De Valera rightly interprets our position to the Americans his followers and supporters in Dublin never cease to pour contumely on Irish soldiers and to heap every indignity possible upon them. "Returned soldiers are treated as lepers rather than as heroes. Men who had not the manliness to fight either in the army or in the rebellion now find courage to persecute by every means in their power those army or ex-service men whom De Valera lauds, and even carry their vindictiveness against every man who helps them.”