We understand that Mr. de Valera is now conducting an
Independent Ireland campaign in America. We hope that some friends of England and of equity, and there are plenty in the United States, may be found to put the following questions to him whenever he appears in public :— (1) Will Mr. de Valera agree to recognize the right of self- determination for North-East Ulster—Le., for the Six-County Area—provided that the British Government agree to sell- deternunation for the area formed by the rest of Ireland ? Yes or No.
(2) Will Mr. de Valera agree that the powers and rights conferred upon the area in which the principle of self-deter- mination is put into practice shall be those of a State of the American Union ? Yes or No.
(3) Does Mr. de Valera hold that President Lincoln was in the right when he insisted that West Virginia should be a separate political community, although the majority of the people of Virginia were opposed to the demands of West Vir- ginia and declared that there must be no partition of the soil of the State ? Yes or No.
The New York Board of Aldermen has offered the freedom of the city to Mr. de Valera, who is said to be raising a " loan " for the "Irish Republic."
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