Arizona republican., 1921-09-19
GEORGE WILL NOT MEET
 DE VALERA UNTIL TONE OF LETTER HAS CHANGED.
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LONDON, Sept. Is-Premier Lloyd George today added another to the telegrams between Dublin and Gair- lock which leaves Eamonn de Vale ra's search for a formula epabling him to accept the invitation to a conference still unsatisfied. and the position on the Irish question is vir- tually the same as Friday.
 In his message, the premier re- mains firm in refusing to meet the Irish delegates as representing an independent and sovereign state. and declares that unless that section of MT. de Valera's letter insisting on the delegates action as representa- tives of an independent Ireland. was withdrawn, a conference between the British cabinet and the Sim Fein plenipotentiaries would be impossible.
 Notwithstanding the firm tones of the telegram, it is interpreted as displaying solicitude to furnish MT. de valera's favorable opening for abadoning his attitude.
 The telegram follows:
 T have received your telegram of last night and observe it does not modify the claim that your delegates should yrpeet us as representatives of a sovereign and independent state.
 You made no such condition in advance when you came to see me in July. invited you then to meet me, in the words of my letter, as the chosen leader of the great majority in southern Ireland, and you accepted
 From the outset of our conversa- tions, I told you that we looked to Ireland to own allegiance to the throne and to make her future as a member of the British commonwealth That was the basis of our proposals and we cannot alter it.
 The status you now claim in ad- vance for your delegates is in effect a repudiation of that basis. 1 am pre- pared to meet your delegates, as met you in July, in the capacity oi the chosen spokesman for your peo- pie to discuss the association of Ire land with the British commonwealth
 My colleagues and I cannot meei them as representative of a sove- reign and independent state withou disloyalty on our part to the throne and the empire. I must therefore repeat that unless the second para. graph of the letter of the twelfth i. withdrawn a conference between u. is impossible-'
 The second paragraph of Mir d valera's letter of Sept. 12, follows:
 Tn this final note, we deem it oul duty to reaffirm that our position is and can only be as we have defined it. Our nation has formally declared its independence and recognizes itsel as a sovereign state. It is only a. representatives of that state and a, it's chosen guardians, that we hay, authority or powers to act on behal of our people. As regards the prin- ciple of government by consent of thu governed in the very nature of things it must be the basis of any agreemen that will achieve the purpose we hay, at heart .. that is final recon ciliation with our nation with yours We have suggested no interpretation of that principle. save it's every da, interpretation, the sense. for example in which it was understood by tn plain men and women of the world when on January 5. 1918. you said The settlement of Europe must b based on such grounds of reason am | justice as will give some promise O l stability It is therefore, that we fec that government by consent of tn governed must be the basis of an 1 territorial settlement in this war;
 NO REPLY FROM SHIN FEN DUBLIN, Sept. 1S-When Premie Lloyd Georges telegram arrived to night it was too late to summon
 cabinet meeting. and, according [ the publicity department. no state ment could be issued tonight.
 MT. Lloyd Georges request fo withdrawal of the offending para graph of MT. de Valera's letter is be Heved to involve the summonin of a full meeting of the Dali EireanI I for when Mir. Lloyd George original afforded an opportunity for privat | withdrawal by MT. de Valera the cab met preferred to submit the matte to the Dail The paragraph was the discussed and approved