The New York herald., 1921-08-29
MDIA'S GREEN FLAG
HURTS ERIN'S CAUSE
British Fear to Grant More
to Ireland While East
Seeks Home Rule.
DAHL ACTS HOPEFULLY
Reply to Lloyd George to
Take Time Although De-
lay Is Dangerous.
SINN FEN WOULD FIGHT
Attitude Is to Get Sympathy
Which Will Help 1t if
Truce Is Broken.
sINN FEN WOULD FIGHT

Special Cable to THE NEW YORK HsSAIp.
Copyright, 1891, by THE NEW YORK HERALD
New York Herald Bureau.
London, Aug. 2S.
The hosting of home rule flag
a green banner-by fanatical Moplahs
in Southern India is likely TO have a
profound and sinister influence on the
course of Irish negotiations.
Notwithstanding this, those closest
to the Irish negotiations here con-
tinue to be hopeful. and declare they
have good grounds for their hopes.
But the conversion of the fanatical
outbreak in Malabar into a political
movement, with an invitation to the
Nationalist leader, Ghandi, and others
to join the Malabar rebels against
British domination, crystallizes just
that action In the Eastern Empire
which some of Premier Lloyd Georges
advisers already lave predicted against
his programme os granting too much
in the face of campaign OF violence
in ireland.
While the revolt in India undoubt-
edly will harden the British Cabinet
against any further concessions to Ire
land, it also will have It's effect in
Dublin.
Confirming information that there
are forces in the Sim Fein anxious to
relapse into what to them is a happy
state Of martyrdom, Stephen Gwynn,
writing in the Dublin Observer to-day,
says:
II construe the Sim Fein's reply as
meaning that 1t has decided to fight
rather than accept any terms England
at present is likely to offer, and is con-
cerned only with two matters-first, to
base it's action on grounds which in
the abstract will gain general accept
ance. and. second, to fix on Great
Britain the necessity of denouncing
the truce or with the odium Of break
ing it."
Mr.. Gwynn further remarks that IL
the radical Sim Feiners were asked,
wouldn't the enforcement OF your de-
mand for strict self determination ruin
British rule in India?" they would an
swer. $50 much the better
This had been written before the lat
est news came from Malabar.
Despite the moral stiffening in the
lines of both sides. attention is called to
the fact that the actual developments Of
the last session of the Dali Eireann.
stripped of bellicose verbiage, are ex-
tremely hopeful and significant Arthur
Griffith, founder Of the Sim Fem, VINO
was chosen Minister Of Foreign Affairs
in the De Valera Cabinet, will have
direct charge of any further negoti-
atona He Is recognized not only as
one OF the strongest but as one of the
most practical men in the Irish Repub-
llcan Cabinet.
Another hopeful sign is that Erskine
Childers, a fiery apostle of Intellectual
purism, most irreconcilable of all sim
Fein members. a man credited with high
minded, but of stiff necked dogma and
scorner of practicality. was not named
to the present Irish Republican Minis
try.
Both of these changes are considered
significant that the Dali Eireann is pre-
pairing to come to real grips with Mr..
Lloyd George and viii make a real ef-
fort to accommodate the divergent ele-
rnents TO the pure logic Of geographical
propinquity and political necessity.
With Premier Lloyd George away for
a holiday, 1t seems likely that the Dali
Eireann Cabinet will not hurry with its
new statement. While delay is still dan
gerous. in that the truce may be broken
by hot heads on either side at any time,
II is considered helpful for the Dali
Eireann 10 have few days, or even 4
few weeks, in which to think things
over after the intoxicating experience OF
participating in the first free meeting OF
an Irish Parliament in 100 years.