Evening star., 1921-10-23
THE. STORY THE WEEK HAS TOLD

but feels that the. circumstances Of the time
The oficial bulletins Of the conference ON
official and plausible report declares that De
valera's. telegram to the Pope Of the goth
inst. has imperiled the negotiation. The tele-
''The people Of ireland have read the mes
an IN
their welfare and the paternal regard which
suggested It, tender your holiness their
"They are confident that the antiquities in
the reply sent in the name of King George will
into believing that the troubles in Ireland
or that the people Of Ireland owe allegiance to
'"The independence of Ireland has been for
mally proclaimed by the regularly elected rep
ed by subsequen % Tss troubles
between Ireland and Britain have their source
in out M fact their the W
people Of the liberty which which Is their natural
with the people Of Britain. as with other peoples.
and lnartyrdom that has proved the reality Of
our peoples attachment to the faith Of their
TO their national freedom, and consideration
will ever induce them to abandon it."
compromising assertion Of Irish independence
"out of conference" should embarrass the con-
ference proceedings, , , That telegram has
Moreover. it is said. the costretemps occurred
at the precise moment when Ulster was intro
duced into the discussion. a meeting of the
conference is scheduled for Monday. Many
predict that meeting will be the last
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GERMANY-It was confidently predicted il.
last Sundays dispatches from Berlin that
within the week the Wirth cabinet would re-
sign, the long-expected accession of the Ger
man peoples party (the party Of big business)
to the government coalition would take place.
and cabinet would be formed pledged to
a Conditional reparation fulfllment policy in
place of Chancellor Wirth's unconditional" or
honest" fulfllment policy.
Conditional what? Conditional. ap-
parently, on return of Upper Silesa to Germany.
on repudiation by the allies of any contrary
decisions previously taken. Else plea OF non
possumus." or the stark fact of bankruptcy.
encouraged induced $50 it is darkly hintedb
by the government itself; else rejection Of the
Loucheur- -Rathenau agreement; else the fat In
the fire, chaos-Ciod knows what
None of the predictions have yet been full
filled. but it seems. probable that important
effective soon after announcement OF the
supreme councils award pursuant TO the league
councils recommended ions concerning Upper
Silesa. That announcement was made on the
Goth. The supreme council appears TO adopt
In toto the recommendations of the league
council. 1t is fascinating TO speculate about
those German decisions. To demand "repara-
tion moratorium for a term of years tother
demands, as for reduction of the reparation
total to follow in due course)? To demand
immediate reduction Of the reparation total
(no payments meanwhile): To take the bit
in the teeth and fatty repudiate the London
program? Or, as suggested above, to sabotage
the London program? The last would be the
Not impossible developments in Germany may
be such as to prevent attendance OF a BRAND ana
not impossibly they may be such as to clamor
for consideration at the conference: On the
other hand, the Germans may decide to go very
warily: that they ready to do is sug-
gested by a report that, though the cabinet is