Sa bhliain 1920, rinne Éamon de Valera trí thaifead d’Fhóram an Náisiúin, tionscadal a thosaigh aturnae ó SAM, Guy Golterman.
Trí Fhóram an Náisiúin, rinneadh óráidí a thug Meiriceánaigh cháiliúla, lenar áiríodh Calvin Coolidge, FD Roosevelt agus an Ginearál Pershing, a thaifeadadh. Díoladh na taifeadtaí de de Valera ar $2 an ceann agus íocadh 25c mar dhleacht d’iontaobhaithe Dháil Éireann.
Iarrtar ar Mheiriceánaigh san óráid tacú le cúis na hÉireann agus í a aithint mar “chúis an chirt, agus na córa, agus an daonlathais chruthanta gach áit”.
Taifead fuaime le caoinchead Edward L. Golterman agus James Michael Golterman, garmhic le Guy Golterman
It has cost her 750 years of blood and tears to hold onto her individual national existence and she will not relinquish it now. The Irish Republic exists. Its shackles serve but to make its reality the more concrete. It is not destroyed when individuals or nations plunge their heads into the sand and say they cannot see it. It is there, recognized or not, and it can be destroyed only by the power that brought it into being - the will of the Irish people.
It is fortunate that the question of the recognition of the Republic arises at this time. It is doubly fortunate that America is strong enough to decide upon it boldly, without fear, in the way its conscience prompts. Ireland's cause is not Ireland's cause only. It is the cause of the world. It is the cause of right, and of justice, and of true democracy everywhere. If I were an American, I would make it the supreme object of my life to win for my country the distinction of securing now for mankind, in peace, what millions have died for vainly in war. Ireland's claims furnishes America the opportunity.
This question of recognition is distinctly an American question, a question solely of American policy. The decision is yours and yours only - yours to say whether you shall continue, as in the past, to recognise a government of might in Ireland, or begin now to recognize a government of right. The decision on Ireland was put on record forever, America's own answer to the questions of her President.
Shall the military power of any nation or group of nations be suffered to determine the fortunes of peoples over whom they have no right to rule except the right of force? Shall strong nations be free to wrong weak nations and make them subject to their purposes and interests? Shall people be ruled and dominated by arbitrary and irresponsible force, or by their own will and choice? Shall there be a common standard of right and privilege for all peoples and nations, or shall the strong do as they will and the weak suffer without redress?
The Paris Peace Treaty, the international diplomats and the international financiers, have not answered these questions as the American people intended them to be answered. It is now a question for the American people to answer them for themselves in their own spirit and in their own regard. Their answer will live in history as the epoch of a new era or as the knell of the hope of all who believe that mankind had at last learned its lesson.