The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1921-12-05
THE IRISH PEACE
NEGOTIATIONS OFF
LLOYD GEORGE NOTIFIES KING
GEORGE-QUESTI AT IS
SUE In THE NEGOTIATIONS.

= London-(By A. P.)-The Irisl
! peace negotiations have broken down
according to statements in respons
ible quarters today and the Dali Fire
, mann delegates are expected to re
turn finally to Ireland tomorrow OF
Wednesday. The truce still remains
effective and no immediate resump-
ton of hostilities is expected.
Premier Lloyd George obtained an
audience with King George today and
explained the situation to him, after
which the British peace representa-
tives held a conference, followed by
a meeting of the entire cabinet
The big questions at issue between
the British government and the rep
resentatives of the Irish Republican
parliament have been:
Shall Ireland become entirely in
dependent or, if it remain within the
British Empire, shall there be two
separate governments in Ireland, one
for Ulster and one for the rest of the
country?
Prime Minister Lloyd George has
refused to consider any proposal
which would put Ireland outside the
Empire.
\
that Ireland should be split in two
parts.
Ulster refused to unite in one parlio-
ment with the Sim Feiners. 1t has
iorganized a parliament of its own
under the Government of Ireland Act.
The Sim Feiners refused to set up
parliament for the South of ireland,
as proposed in that act. They ad
hered to their own Irish parliament,
called the Dali Eiremann, which they
had set UP independently as the gov
erning body of he Irish Republic.
That was the situation when the
truce began last July, after King
George had made conciliatory
speech at the opening of the new
parliament in Ulster.
The purpose of the negotiations now
in progress, as defined by Lloyd
George and accepted by the Sim Fein
representatives is 'to ascertain how
the association Of Ireland with the
community of nations known as the
British Empire may be best recon
ciled with Irish national aspirations"
The conferences began in July.
Both sides have at times entertained
higher hopes of a final and satisfac-
tory settlement probably than at any
time since the Irish question became
thorn in the side of the British En-
pire, but there have been several
crisis when the negotiations seemed
doomed to failure. 1.
The first of these occurred when
Lloyd George offered to Devalera at
consultation in London a form of self
government in Ireland something like
that prevailing in the British domin-
ions. The Dali Eiremann utterly re-
jected this proposal on the ground
that it did not afford even genuine
dominion rule. For a time it seemed
that deadlock had been reached
Lloyd George endeavored to resume
but this move seemed
likely to be baked by DeValera's in
sistance that the Irish delegates to such
a conference must be accepted as hav-
ing derived their authority from free
and independent Ireland. The British
Premier refused to concede that point
as, he said, it would constitute a
recognition at the very outset of Ire
lands claims for separation from the
British Empire
This obstacle was overcome by the
two parties agreeing upon Lloyd
Georges formula that the purpose OF
the conference should be to ascertain
how Ireland's association with the
empire might be best reconciled with
Ireland's national aspirations.
Under that formula, meetings have
been in progress since early October.
The proceedings have been secret. 1t
has been reported, however, that Brit
ish representatives submitted a plan
-
ton" with the empire and to allow
her an almost complete measure of
self-government to be exercised by
parliaments in Ulster and
South Ireland respectively, and by a
Central Council jointly chosen.
This brought Ulster again into the
negotiations and compelled Premier
Lloyd George to defer his trip to the
Conference on Limita-
ion of Armament so that he could
1evote his time to an effort to over
come listers hesitation or objection
% cooperate with the South of Ire
and in any form of common govern
nent
The general understanding was
hat the Sim Fein delegates insisted
hat there must be no partition of Ire
and into the Norh and South with diff
erent forms of government and diff
erent relations to the empire.
To reconcile these conflicting view
POINTS, Lloyd George invited Sir
lanes Craig, the Ulster Premier, to
ome to London in the first week in
November to talk things over. The
ituation was so delicate that Sir
ames desired the support and advice
f other Ulster leaders and finally all
he members of the Ulster cabinet
we're called to London. Unionist
pinion in England has been stead
astly against any coercion OF Uls-
err" 1t was generally conceded that
ne of the most difficult stages OF
be negotiations had been reached
Negroes Lynched in Georgia