Telegram from Eamon de Valera to the delegates of the conference of the American Association for the Recognition of an Independent Irish Republic (New York)

Greetings to delegates. In view of new menace request your members and all friends of Ireland to organise and put Ireland's case, including Partition, and the condition of the Nationalist minority in the partitioned area clearly before American public. To force into this war a people relatively defenceless against air attack would be an inhuman outrage. The Irish people have a right to keep out of it as Americans have and we shall defend that right to the utmost. Beware false parallels. Ireland belongs to the Irish people and our territory cannot be lent or leased to any belligerent for war purposes without involving us in the war.