The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-08-18
.DE VALERA TRYING ID BRING ULSTER
 ID S|NN FEN VIEW
Despite Deadlock, Events Are Transporting Behind Scenes Which May Lead
 to Settlement
By Associated Press

Dublin, August 1.-The l)ail Eireann will go into secret session to- morrow to discuss the British gov ernments peace proposals with the words of De Valera still fresh in the minds of it's members.
 At the second session of the parlia ment held today in the Mansion the British offer. Again he insisted that nothing less than independence for Ireland was in the minds of the Irish leaders. He stressed his view point that the status of dominion government had not been made to Ireland. The statement that such A government had been offered com tained two faisehoods. There was no Ireland mentioned in the terms, onsy two broken pieces of Ireland. Dominions had the right to secede but the Irish republic must stay within the empire whether 1t desired to do SO or not, he said. n
 During his address MT. De Valera held out the olive branch to Great Britain. He said he would be willing to suggest that the Irish people give  might be able to view the future without anticipating distractlng in ternal problems
 Mir. De Valera declared again that the claims of the minority in Ire land, as represented by the Ulsterites. were strong, but added that he for one would be ready to go a long ways to give in to Ulster'' # we could get them to come with us and consider the interest of their own country and not be. allying themselves with for eigners." Working On Craig
 Everywhere these words of Mir. De Valera with regard to Ulster were received as an indication that events were transpiring behind the scenes having as their purpose the bringing of Sir James Craig, the ujster pre- mier- into touch with the Sim Fein leaders in the hope of evolving some means of surmounting the present impasse. &
 Significance in this respect also att iaches to the words of MT. De Valera that the republicans were ready to make to north Ireland '.sacrirlces We never would think of making to England"
 Another way out of the deadlock, which has arisen over the peace ne. gotiations aside from the possible submission of the terms of Premier Lloyd George to refere ndum is said to have been suggested today to members of the Daii Eireann which is considered the governing body of the Irish republic should go to Great Britain, ;saying:s& s., tNe. < We as a republic are desirous O: becoming member of the British commonwealth. We are willing to grant you the concessions which Mir, Lloyd George has dems nded in his letter. such. as naval and air bases.
 This, it was said in high quarters tonight. would involve Ulster com ing into single dominion with south Ireland. High, authorities tonight expressed the view that they did not believe Ulster would do this at the present time, but that they were con vinced she would do so when new Irish parliament was elected, mad up of men the people of Ulster felt they could trust to leg slate with respect to their property. SfS
 Intfmafed Scheme
 MT. DeValera Is considered to have intimated some such scheme in his speech today when he said:
 An association that would be con : sistent with our right to see that we were to be the judges of what are our own interests and that we were not compelled to leave judgment Of what are our own interests or not to others, combination of that sort, would, l believe commend itself to 2 majority of my colleagues
 "But is should really be a combi- : nation that is in accord with the description the British themselves gave of this, offered association. Speaking of dominion they desired 1t in terms at any rate which amount to free and friendly co operation, Free and friendly co-operation is one thing and forced cooperation another"
 Mir. DeValera went on to say as there never have been union there could be no secession, so that if negotiations were to be continued Ireland should act as separate ma. tiop as it did when negotiations started.
 During today's session Of Parlia- ment the question of imm grafton, upon which the Sim Fein leaders place much emphasis. was touched in the report of the minister of home affairs. He said the effort made by the Sinn Fefn to stop young people from leaving the country had been fairly successful during the last year, but that the leaders were not all together satisfied. He indicated that further steps would be taken to pre- vent youth leaving Ireland
 The Dail Eireann today is' com posed largely of young men, their average age being. about 30 years. There are not Il half dozen gray