New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-07-03
Irish Leaders Dissatisfied
With Delay; Believe the
Freeing of Griffith and
MacNeill Shows Sincerity
Situation Is ENCOURAGING
''Republic's'' President Will
Demand Terms Similar to
Those Given South Africa
BY Arthur S. Draper
From The Tribaas's Earoredm Bureau
Copyright. 1921. New York Tribune Inc

vaeras meeting Monday in Dublin
with leaders Of the minority factions
ia Ireland the president of the Irish
republic is confidently expected to &C
cept Premier Lloyd Georges invita-
ton to a conference in London to dis
cuss settlement of the Irish question.
Reports from Dublin say that the
release OF Arthur Griffith and Pro-
fessor John MacNeill, two rebel mem
bers Of Parliament who have been in
prison the last year, has made a good
Impression Of the sincerity of the Lon
don government. In Republican circles
there is some Dissatisfaction with De
Valera's tactics of delay, some holding
that mis- hesitation in making q final
reply to the Premier's invitation is in
jUring his own cause.
De Valera has asked the Southern
Unionists to use their influence TO ar
range q conference between him and
Sir James Craig, the Ulster Premier,
who will not attend Mondays fractional
meeting. Among those who will ac-
company the president of the Irish re
public to the London gathering is
John Macheown, who is now in Mount
10Y prison under sentence of death for
the murde~ of police inspector. He is
=
lican army and a powerful force in
Sim Fem councils.
Will Demand Presence of SHUTS
De Valera will demand the presence
Of General Jan C.. SHUTS, Premier of
the Union of South Africa, at the Lon
don conference. The Sim Fem leader
will ask Premier Lloyd George to state
the terms of the settlement he pro-
poses. If these fall below the grants
given South Africa under her constitu-
ton, De Valera will appeal to General
Shuts, asking him whether he would
accept similar terms. If the British
government agrees to give Ireland the
same terms as were obtained by South
Africa after the Boer War De Valera
will promise to return to Ireland and
recommend their acceptance by the
Irish people.
De Valera probably would accept q
limitation for q period of years Of the
right Of Ireland to exercise the do
minions privilege Of complete seces-
sion from the British Empire
The situation is developing in an ex-
ceedlngly encouraging way, and at last
the prospect of truce in Ireland and
the settlement of differences there
seems excellent. The press generally is
preserving an attitude favorable to ne
collation., and, with few exceptions, the
newspapers are giving Premier Lloyd
George every encouragement for his
new policy of concilia tion. The New
Statesman says:
IAN Irish CORES ondent writes: 1T
would be folly to disguise the fact that
though Ireland desires nothing more
ardently than peace, the average Irish
man hopes, rather than expects, that
Lloyd Georges invitation to De Valera
and Sir James Craig will provide a way
ont of situation which, by universal
admission, is intolerable'
Dropped Policy of Violence
'In Great Britain it is taken for
granted that the Cabinet has dropped
the plan of imposing a settlement on
Ireland because the Georgian olive
branch followed the brandishing of the
Blrkenhead bludgeon. Ireland is sus-
picious, with good reason, of double
dealing by the coalition and has still
to be convinced that the olive branch
was profered in earnest and not as
an excuse 80 Justify q more drastic
use of the bludgeon.
There are republicans who even a
sign from heaven would not persuade
that Great Britain might be trusted
TO act fairly toward Ireland. But the
men whose opinions count in the move
ment are not of this type. The major
ity of the leaders, including most of
the prominent activities upon whose
head the government has set a price
are honestly anxious for a reasonable
settlement and are ready to make sub
stantial compromises TO obtain it,"
The Saturday Review, which appears
to-day under new management and an
nounces that henceforth it will be non
political, says:
The government has stumbled at
last on the only path to a tolerable
settlement and the country, we believe
will hold them to it,"
q. X. Chesterton, in The New Wit
ness, says:
There are sincere peacemakers even
N the government and thousands of
them IN the country. 1t is to these
mat we must look TO make the real
conference succeed whether OF no the
pohuclans mean it to succeed"