Arizona republican., 1921-11-26
S|NN FEN WILL NOT CONSENT TO
 OWN ALLEGIANCE TO KING GEORGE
Virtual Breakdown of Irish Negotiations Follows De- mand of Sim Fein For Recognition As State
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 LONDON, Nov. 25.-What is feared to be the last scene in the effort to bring peace to Ireland was enacted today when Prime Minister Lloyd George and Sir James Craig met in the formers official residence in Downing street, where the imperial premier told the head of the northern government that Sim Fein Ireland had not consented to SHn allegiance to the king, a pre-requis.-e to Listers agreement to enter an all-Ireland parliament.
 The Sim Fein delegates are con- sulting with members of the cabinet in Dublin on the crisis thus brought about, while Sir James packed his bag and returned to Belfast, where he will report to his parliament next Tuesday and possibly disclose the cause of the virtual breakdown of Irish negotiations. The official cor respondence that has passed between the various delegations also may be published at the same time in Lon- don.
 Weekend efforts, meanwhile, will be made by peacemakers in an att tempt to persuade the Sim Fein to modify its attitude on the question of allegiance to the king. The Dail Eireann members have taken the oath of allegiance to the Irish re- public, and thus far they have refused to substitute for it recognition, with in Ireland, of King George. The furthest concessions from the Sim Fein has been their willingness 50 recognize the king as the formal president of the community of free nations which Ireland might choose voluntarily to join, but even this was not definitely promised.
 Lord Chancellor Birkenhead and Attorney General Hewart. law of ficers of the crown. have rapsacked the constitutions of all the British dominions to find any precedent for the only kind of relationship with the British crown that Sim Fein will consider. but nothing can be found and the Evening News, the first Lon- don newspaper to indicate the real cause of the crisis. suggests that the relations of Bavaria with Prussia in the German empire might furnish such a precedent.
 But MT. Lloyd George, 1t Is under stood, would not admit of any ar rangement which would leave Ire lands allegiance to the crown in any l doubt, and the government would support Ulster in refusing any asso- | citation which would weaken its ! British citizenship.
 The only prospect for peace now Is | said to rest on Sim Fein's conceding | allegiance to the crown and the in- | fluence of the advocates of modera- | tion has been invoked in a final et-
 fort to change its position. The | question is being put as to whether | the point involved is worth renewed warfare, for a breakdown of the ] negotiations on that issue, it is be- 1 lieved, would be followed, either be- | fore or after the general election. by | the handing over of Ireland to mill tary rule and the displacement of the civilian officials in Dublin Castle to whose influence is attributed the pre- vious failure of military measures.
 All along the Sim Fein delegates 1 have held the belief that no matter
 what the result of the negotiations might be the British public would | oppose the employment of the mili-
 tary; and in this they have the sup
 port of former Premier Asquith. who
 at a meeting of the Liberal Fedora
 tion today said the Liberal party had
 not receded from any pledge giver
 against the forcible coercion of th' Ulster minority.
 At the same time he asked all Lib
 erals to assent to the proposition | that it was equally true that the,
 were not going to be parties. at thu instance or for the sake of a corne of Ulster, to coercion of the grea
 mass of Irish people.