Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-09-19

London, Sept. 1s-(By the Assoc
ciated Press) Lloyd George
today added another to the brisk fire
of kilograms between Dublin and
Gairloch, which leaves cannon de VAL
era's search for formula enabling
him to accept the invitation to a con-
ference still unsatisfied, and the posi-
ton on the Irish question is virtual
ly the same as on Friday.
In his message to the Irish republ-
lean leader the British prime minis
ter remains firm in refusing to meet
the Irish delegates as representing
an independent and sovereign state.
and declares that unless that section
of Mr.. De Valera's recent letter in
sisting upon the delegates acting as
representatives of an independent
Ireland. was withdrawn, a conference
between the members of the British
cabinet and the Sim Fein plenipoter- =
tiares would be impossible.
Notwithstanding the firm tone Of
Mr.. Lloyd Georges telegram it is in
terpreted as displaying solicitude to
opening for abandoning his present
attitude.
81 have RECEIVED your telegram Of
last night and observe 1t does not
modify the claim that your delegates
should meet us as representatives of
a sovereign and Independent state"
the premier's telegram said.
you made no such conditions in
advance when you came to see me in
July. / invited you then to meet me,
in the words of my letter. as the
chosen leader of the great majority In
Southern Ireland, and you accepted
the invitation.
From the very outset Of our con-
versations I told you that we looked
to Ireland to own allegiance to the
Throne and to make her future years
member of the British common
wealth. That was the basis of our
proposals, and we can not alter IT,
THE status you now claim in adj
vance for your delegates is in eff
feet a reputation of that zasis
am prepared to meet your delegate
as I met you in July, in the capacity
of the chosen spokesman for your
people to discuss the association of
Ireland with the British common
wealth.
/ MY colleagues and I can not meet
as representatives of a sovereign and
Independent state without disloyalty
on our part to the throne and the
empire. / must therefore, repeat.
that unless the second paragraph of
your letter Of the twelfth is with
drawn a conference between us is
impossible
The second paragraph of Mr.. De ,
Nalera's note of Sept. II TO which
Premier Lloyd George alludes in his
/ latest telegram, is as follows:
I'm this final note We deem It our
duty to reaffirm that our position is
and can only be as we have defined
it throughout this correspondence.
Our nation has formally declared it's
independence and recognizes itself
as a sovereign state. 1t is only as
/ representatives Of that state and as
it's chosen guardians that we have
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of our people. AS regards the people
of government by consent of the gov
erned in the very nature of things
it must be the basis of any agree
ment that will achieve the purpose
we have at heart-that is. the final
reconciliation of our nation with
yours. We have suggested no inter
probation of that principle save its
every day interspection. the sense of
example in which ii was understood
by the plain men and women Of the
world when on January 5, 1918, you
said:
. The settlement of Europe must &.
be based on such grounds of reason
and justice as will give some promise
of stability. Therefore it is that we
feel that government with consent Of
the governed must be the basis Of
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