Summary of the historic claim of Ireland. Synopsis of ‘A statement of Ireland’s case for Freedom’. I. The Irish nation earnestly desires the international Peace Congress to be pure and impartial in its constitution and proceedings. II. Ireland is entitled to independence as one of the primary sovereign states of Christendom. III. Ireland’s Constitutional right is supported by her meritorious record when independent. IV. Ireland is inherently entitled to sovereign independence and international recognition. V. Ireland possesses adequate manpower to maintain sovereign independence once established. VI. Ireland is apt for industries and trade as an independent state. VII. Ireland is financially able to discharge the duties of an independent state. VIII. Ireland is fit and prepared to resume the responsibilities, internal and external, of an independent state. IX. Ireland is entitled to the right, common to nations and persons, of self-preservation against England’s policy of extermination. X. Ireland has rightly re-asserted her right in armed insurrection in 1916. XI. Ireland’s purposes on resuming independence are those of peace and progress. XII. Ireland’s sovereign independence is essential to the freedom of the seas. XIII. England is disqualified and unfit to rule Ireland. XIV. Ireland claims recognition and intervention by the Congress, restitution and reparation by England, and an international guarantee for her future security. Also speech asserting that ‘the people of Ireland are uncompromisingly opposed to the government of the Irish Nation by England’.