The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1921-07-19
ULSTER SEES
IRISH LEADER
AS VISIONARY
Is Determined To Maintain
Present Status with Own
Parliament-De Valera At
titude Not Unhopeful".
ANSWERS CRAIG TALK
(By Associated Press)

LONDON, July 19.-Eamonn De
Valera, the Irish Republican leader,
and his colleagues. who accompanied
him to London, for the conference
with Premier Lloyd George in the ef-
fort to lay the basis of a triparate
conference for solution of the Irish
question are marking time in anticipa-
tlon of the conversation of Mr.. De
Valera and the premier Thursday
morning.
1t is reported that by that time Mr.
Lloyd George will have certain pro-
positions to present to the Irish lead
ers. which will have received the ap-
proval OF the British cabinet
"Still Not UnhopefuI."
The spokesman of the Irish dele
gates today characterized their atti-
tude as still not unhopeful' With
reference to the statement to the press
of Sir. James Craig, the Ulster pre-
mier, in which he declared it only re-
mained now for Mr.. De Valera and the
BRUSH people to come to terms, re-
gardlng the area outside that of which
he IS prime minister, and that the peo
pie of northern Ireland made no claim
whatever, 10 determine the terms Of
make with southern Ireland, the
spokesman said:
1T is not a question of Belfast be-
! ing subservient to Dublin or vice
versa, but that both must be subsery-
| lent to Ireland
BELFAST, July 19.-The return to
Belfast of Sir James Craig, the Ulster
/ nd he
net who have been with him in Lon
don in connection with the Irish peace
move, must not be taken as a rupture
OF the negotiations. it was declared
today by Colonel Spencer, secretary
OF the delegation, on its arrival here.
/ 1t is thought, indeed, that the delega-
ton will be recalled to London next
week
None of the cabinet members would
have anything to say for publication
Eamonn de Valera is regarded by
the Ulster Unionists as a visionary,
and the feeling in Unionist circles
here is that no discussions among all
the parties concerned in the Irish set
tlement would be possible until he
considerably modified his position.
Attitude Expressed
When Sir James Craig saw the Re-
publican leader in Dublin before the
recent Irish parliamentary elections
the Ulster premier is declared in I'm
ionist quarters to have heard a long
disquisition on an Irish republic, and
Unionists here expressed the belief
today that Mr.. de Valera has ex.
pressed himself similarly in his inter-
views with Premier Lloyd George.
The attitude of the Ulster premier
and his collea gues as expressed by
Sir James in his statement made in
London last night, in which he de-
clared Ulster was determined to main
tain her present status with her own
parliament, is cordially approved by
the Belfast Unionists in general as is
indicated by their newspaper organs
There was never any other out
come of the negotiations possible,
says the Belfast News Letter, except
in the minds of those who would have
sacrificed us on the altar of a false
peace. We shall have nothing to do
with any settlement terms that in
fringe on or diminish the status of
our parliament, and we base that at
titude on the same ground as de Va
lera makes his claim to self-determina-
ton
Newspaper View
On the other hand, the Irish News,
which voices the views of Joseph Dew.
lin, Nationalist, says: IF the six
specially chosen Ulster counties are
: to selfdetermine themselves into ruin
! Gus conflict with the rest of Ireland
why deny the claim of any county to
self-determine itself out of association
with secessionists? The claim in
sisted on by Sir James Craig is or
, all fours with that put forward by the
southern states of the American re
public 60 years ago. This is true
and exact parallel. The formula tina
Ireland is like unto the secessionist
!, states has been abandoned"