Norwich bulletin., 1921-08-27

-@~-A---A-r aug AW.--ADy 1n6 "A. 1sJ- Frenler George, today sent a prompt rejolnder 10 the letter of Eamoon De Valera which rejected the British gov ernment's terms of peace in Ire and.
 The premier's note constituted a firm reiterauon of the governments former standpoint. that Ireland could not be permitted to withdraw from the em- p.re. He said that he thought he had made it clear in conversations and pre- vious communications that the govern ment can discourse no settlement which involves a refusal on the part of Ire land 70 accept a free. equal and loyal partnership in the British commonwealth under one sovereign"
 Mr. Lloyd George in concluding his note still held oc@a the door for further negotiations ls,th Mir. De Valera ana his colleagues if they are prepared to examine how far the governments con sideration "ean be reconcilled with the aspirations you report" He declared, however, that the government could not 'prolong a mere exchange of notes." In his communication Mir. Lloyd George preserved the same friendly tone that haracterized his former letter to Mr. De Valera. Today he buttressed the governments standpoint by quotationed from British patriots and Abraham Lin- son.
 He warned Mr. De Valera that needless prOiouEation of the negotiations would serce to play into the hands of the extremists who he declared were only anxious Go wreck the negotiations and terminate the truce.
 A hopeful aspect Of the situation as it iE viewed in London political circles Is that neither Mir De Valera, in his lat est communication, nor MT. Lloyd Ge3ree has yet closed the door on the negotiations.
 Text Of Reply by Lloyd George.
 The text of the reply of Premier Lloyd George to Eamonn De Valera ls as follows:
 Sir: The British government srs pro loundly disappointed by your letter of August 24. You write of the conditions of the meeting between us as though no mct.ng had ever taken place.
 'I must remind you, therefore. that when I asked you to meet me six weeks ago ! made no preliminary conditions of my sort You came to London on that invitation and exchanged views with me tt three meetings Of considerable length. The proposals I made to you after those meetings were based upon full and sym iathetic consideration Of the views which sdu expressed
 They were not made in any hag- ding spirit. On the contrary, my co saEues and ! went 10 the very limit of 3ur powers in endeavoring to reconcile British and Irish interests. Our pro- 3osals have gone far beyond all pre- ceIen- ana have been approved as lib- eral by the whole Of the civilized world EV,1 iu quarters which had shown sym pathy with the most extreme of Irish cia.us they are regarded as the ut most which the empire can reasonably ofer or Ireland reasonab y expect.
 The only criticism Of them I have asarG outside of Ireland is from those Tro maintain that our proposals have ,verstepped both warrant and wisdom tHe.r lberality. As your letter shows SO recognition of this, and further ne -1tiatioas must, fear, be futile, unless some iefnite progress is made towards accsptsncc of a basis.
 Desire Claim of subsevienee.
 You declare our proposas invoice he surrender of Ireland's whole nation al tradition and reduce her to subser- sience. What are the facts! Under the settlement we outlined Ireland would .outrol every nerve and fiber of her na- .isua. existence. She would speak her 1ru language and make her own reli- g ous life. she wou have complete power over taxation and finance subject uniy to an agreement for keeping trade and transport as free as possible be- tween herself and Great Britain. her best market.
 She would have uncontrolled authori- iy over education and all the moral and spiritual interests O finer race; she would have it also over law and order, over and and agriculture. over condi- Hons os labor and industry, over the health and homes of her people and over he- own defence.
 She would. in fact within the shores or Ir. .ait be free in every respect of
  md national development. The states
 ..u4crican union, sovereign though tus- be- enjoy no such range of rights "OuT proposals go even further for f.e inv..c Ireland to take her place as
 ..r.r.~ ln the great commonwealth oi lrss nations, united by allegiance to the
 I've consider these proposals com. Dletely fulfil your wish that the primer D.s of government by consent of tn, rovernment should be the broad anC guiding principle of the settlement whicl your principaht,es are to negotiate. Ina principle was first developed in Englant and is the handspring of the representa- tive Institutions which she was first tt create. It was spread by her through out che world and is now the very lif bf the British commonwealth.
 "We could not have invited the Irisl people to take their place in that com monVeaith on any other principle. an, wa are concerned that through 1t VI can heal old misunderstanding an, achieve enduring partnership as honor able to Ireland as to the other nation R which the commonw edith consists
 ~But when you argue that the re aNations of Ireland withtthe British em 1ire are comparable in principle to thos af Holland or Belgium with the Ger man empire, I find. 1t necessary to rs peat once more that those are premise which no British government, whateve It's complexion. can ever accept
 Tn den1andlng that Ireland shoul be ctrested as a separate sovereign pow .r. with no allegiane to the crown an, uo loyalty to the sister nations of tn commonwealth. you are advancing claim which the most famous nationalist lead pr In Irish history, from Grattan to Par ne1 and Redmond. have explicitly dis owned.
 Quotes Grattan and O'connen.
 s'Grattan in a famous phrase declar cd that the ocean protests against sep aration and the sea against union Daniel o'ConneIl most eloquent. per haps, of all the Epokesmen of the Iris ,ational cause. protested thus in tn house of commons in 1S30:
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