Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1921-11-26
PROSPECTS FOR
SETTLING IRISH
D|S.,..'TE WANING
MiND|CAT 7 ION
IoyR Fein'S C0nCeding AZ
YAgiance to the Crown Is
" the Only Thing That Can
! Bring Peace in Erin.
BREAKDOWN MEANS A
RENEWAL OF WARFARE
Sir James Craig, After a
Conference With Lloyd
George, Leaves for Ulster
to Make His Report,
tBy The Assocmres rressJ

London, Nov. 25 (by the Asso
ciated Press. )-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 i'm
nerial premier told the head of the
northern government that sim
fein Ireland had not consented to
own allegiance to the king, pre-
requisite to listers agreement ID
enter an all-Ireland parliament.
The sim fein delegates are
consulting 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 vir-
tual breakdown of the Irish nego-
tiations. The official correspond
cnce that has passed between the
various delegations also may be
published at the same time in Lon
don,
Won't Recognize King.
Week lend efforts, meanwhile,
will be made by peace makers In
an attempt to persuade the Sim
fein to modify its attitude on the
question of allegiance to the king.
Tho dali eireann members have
taken the oath of allegiance to the
Irish republic, and thus far they
have refused to substitute for it
recognition. within Ireland, of
King George. The furthest conces-
sions from the Sim fein has
been their willingness to recoenize
the king as the formal president
Of the society of free nations which
Ireland might choose voluntarily
to join, but even this was not defi-
nitely promised.
Lord Chancellor Birkenhead and
Attorney General Hewart, law Of
ficers of the crown, have ran
sacked the constitutions of all the
British dominions to find any pre-
cedent for the only kind of rela-
tionship with the British crown
that sim fein will consider, but
nothing can be found, and the
Evening News, the first London
newspaper to indicate the real
cause of the crisis, suggests that
the relations of Bavaria with Prus-
sia in the German empire might
furnish such a precedent.
But Mr.. Lloyd George, 1t is un-
derstood, would not admit of anv
arrangement which would leave
Ireland's allegiance to the crown
in any doubt, and the government
would support Ulster in refusing
any association which would weak
en- its British citizenship.
Only Prospects for Peace.
The only prospect for peace now
Is said to rest on sim fein's con-
ceding allegiance to the crown, and
the influence of the advocates of
moderation has been invoked in a
final effort to change its position.
The. question Is being put as to
whether the point involved is wor n
renewed warfare, for breakdown
of the negotiations on that issue, 1t
is believed, would be followed, J
either before or after the general !
election, by the handing over of
Ireland to military rule and the
displacement of the civilian Off
cials in Dublin Castle to whose in
fluence is attributed the previous
failure of military measures.
All along the sim fein dele
gates have held the belief that no
matter what the result of the ne
gotiations might be. the British |