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IRISH PEACE
 NEGOTIATIONS 7 REACH CRISIS
BRITISH PRESS INSISTS SINN FEN DEC LARATIONS OF PRINCIPLES HAVE GONE FAR ENOUGH; DEMAND IRISH GET DOWN TO BUSINESS
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 negotiations now have reached the critical stage. in the British view, as mirrored by the great majority of newspapers, including those pre- viously supporters of home rule and those advanced liberal newspapers such as the Daily News and the Man chester Guardian, which in the past have gone almost as far as the Sim Fein.
 They think the Sim Fein declara- tions of general principles have gone far enough and that the time has come for dropping declarations of principles and getting down to the business of arranging the terms, if the Sim Fein proposes to negotiate the proposals which the government offered as set forth in detail in Prime Minister Lloyd Georges first letter. The general belief expressed is that Eamonn de Valera, the Irish Repub- lican leader. having said all that is necessary to assure Irishmen of the Sim Fein's theoretical standpoint, will do this.
 The British find 1t difficult to analyze MT. de valera's exact posi- tion from whatever light his latest notes throw upon it. There is the belief, or at least the hope. that the policy of the Irish Republican cabi- net will be. while constantly affirm Ing Ireland's claim to independence to negotiate at the same time terms for dominion status under the new watchword of "consent of the gov erned"-in other words, that, while clinging to the assertion of the in- herent right to independence, the dominion status. bargaining to the Q approach to independence.
 It is hoped here that the final so- ntion may rest upon a referendum sf the Irish people. The New States man. which is the most solid organ of the labor movement and con- eistent and well-informed friend of Ireland, asserts that four -fifths of the Irish people would vote for ac- ceptance of the British terms. Every observer in Ireland. it says. agrees , that the people are tired to death of guerilla fighting and are finding rare enjoyment c the freedom to live their norrnsd lives which the truce has given them If the Irish T 1pub- lican cabinet eventually refuses the British terms a referendum of the British people probably will follow in the form of the British government resorting to general election to give the country a chance to reject or confirm the governments policy.
 Judging from the newspapers again, there is a distinct hardening of Brit ish sentiment in the direction of CO., ercing the Irish with more force than hitherto has been used. British sentiment, they declare, would ap prove this, based on the feeling that the government has offered very gen erous concessions and that the seces- sion of Ireland could not possibly be permitted
 Ulster apparently is giving no helI to a compromise and Mir. de Valera it is believed here, must drop any hope of making an arrangement wiI the northern provinces whereby they will present a united front witf southern Ireland to Great Britain.
 Prime Minister Lloyd George to- morrow is going for vacation in tho Scotch country, 40 miles from rail. road. There is much curiosity hert as to who will act as negotiators il behalf of Great Britain in case thu negotiations begin, since the prim' minister in his letter to Mir. de Va lera emphasized that there should b' no delay in negotiating.
 Two labor leaders, who are friendl. to the Irish aspirations, gave thei views today. Arthur Henderson speaking at Carlisle, said the situa tion was critical, but not hopeless.
 An almost insurmountable ob
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