The New York herald., 1921-12-08
AMNESTY III O.fOV
King George Summons
Parliament to IndOrse
Irish Freedom
on Dec. IA
DALI CABINET MEETS
Ulster Premier and Lloyd
George to Confer on De-
tails To-day.
ALL IRELAND REJOICES
De Valcra's Attitude Likely to
Be Influenced by Wave of
Public Sentiment.

Special Gable to THE New York HERALD.
Copyright, 1927. By THE New YORK HErALn
New York Herald Bureau,
London, Dee. I.
Every eye throughout the British
Isles Is tonight turned jubilantly to
the new era of peace and prosperity
which the Irish settlement seems to
open. Only Ulster remains officially
non -committal. But even there Sir
James Craig sent to party meet
ing, through the medium of his wife,
a message in which he characterized
the treaty's grant of freedom of
choice to Ulster as victory for her
and in which he expressed high
hopes of peace.
That message is generally inter-
preted as Sir James's first move to
bring the dour men of Ulster into
the smiling line which to-day ex-
tends from Buckingham Palace.
where the King was photographed
smiling among his Ministers, to the
matter OF fact circles about the Bank
OF England. where hard headed men
of business sent security values
soaring and began to talk smilingly
of lower bank rate, lower income
taxes, cheaper wheat and beer and
sugar and a general revival of trade
activity.
And IL anything was needed to
stimulate the joy of Ireland itself
King George has proclaimed an anY
nesty for the more than 3.400 Iriia
men and Irish women held in jails
and interment camps on political
charges. Tonight these prisoners
are pouring back to their homes.
Many of them have been confined for
months and many of them have been
ION the run and never slept in
home bed for months before that.
There is talk, too, of the reconsidera-
tion of the sentences of those Irish
men who have already been con-
demned for political offenses and are
serving terms Of Imprisonment with
ordinary criminals.
steps tn Ratify Treaty.
Steps to ratify the treaty begin to-
morrow. The Cabinet Of Dali
Eireann will meet in Dublin and the
rlenipotentiaries, with Arthur Grif-
fifth at their head will report the re-
suit of their London mission. The
full Dublin Parliament will be called
later The British Parliament in
response to the Kings call will con-
vene on December II. listers Par.
lament is in session. but will not act
until Sir James Craig has conferred
once more with Mr.. Lloyd George.
But universal opinion is here tonight
that whatever extremists in any or
these three fields may do TO try to
wreck the agreement the united mass
Of public opinion directly concerned
and throughout the world will sea
the settlement triumphantly through.
There is still perceptible differ
once between the Irish and the Brit
ish viewpoint of what the treaty
means. The British continue TO in.
terpret 1t as victory for their in.
sistent position that there must be
no political parting between Ireland
and the empire. Michael Collins is
sued statement before leaving to-
night in which he took the line that
the more completely Ireland he
comes a free state the more will.
ingly will she cooperate with Great
Britain in world affairs. Those diff
ferences. however, are regarded as
purely superficial effect. The genl
eral popular approval OF the settle.
rent seems to warrant its successful
working on either hypothesis
No Doubts of Indorsemcnt
There is, in fact. 10 doubt in any
quarter but that the terms of ,ba
settlement will be indorsed. for the
splendidlv happy response. both hero
and in the outside world, particularly
in France and in America. has in tho
opinion of the negotiators. made any
backward step impossible now. Eng
lish and Irish delegates TO-DAY seemed
alike pleased with what they had done
because of this approval.
Michael Collins. Arthur Griffith.
Eamon Duggan and Richard G. Bar
ton. with their secretariat. starte,
home 10 Dublin this evening. The
had literally to fight their way throus
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