Arizona republican., 1921-07-18
KING GEORGE DETERMINED TO
 PACIFY IRELAND IF POSSIBLE
 F0RCESLLOYD GEORGE T0ACT
Many Influences Working To Settle Irish Trouble; Premier Takes Side With English Majority
By Milton Bronner

now progressing bring peace in Ire | land, the result will be due to this most varying set of influences in the history of great world events:
 FIRST: The grim resolve of the bulk of Irishmen to follow De Va lera's lead
 SECOND: King Georges determ- ination to pacify Ireland is possible. THIRD: The growing dismay of the British taxpayers at the enormous sums spent in repressing Ireland without coming any nearer to set tlement.
 FOURTH: The growing discomfort in the British army at the work. FIFTH: The publicity campaign of the Northcliffe press, urging the olive branch be extended to Ireland. SIXTH: The pressure exerted by the preimers of British independent dominionss who saw peace possible in Ireland only if the Irish were given | independence within the empire sim liar to Canada and Australia. SEVENTH: The influences of America. reinforced by every promi- nent American whom Lloyd George has met in the past few months. in cluding George Harvey, Thomas La mont and Bernard Baruch. All are supposed to have told him that there was slim chance of Anglo-Ame can approachment while Ireland was oppressed.
 | Many here who are well informed. :, however, look upon King George as the real hero in the situation. The cabinet has been divided on the Irish | question for a long time, Churchill and the Lord Chancellor being | counted a ,~t, ciliatory methods. while the Premier l is supposed to have sided with the | majority that believed in more mill | tary force.
 The king really forced action on the | Irish question by his insistency in the | famous speech he delivered in Belfast June 22, when he opened the Ulster parliament.
 Makes Plea for Peace
 His plea to Irishmen to forgive and 1 forget and to join in making Ireland land of peace. contentment and good will profoundly stirred England.
 The Premier. quick to sense what the public was thinking. jumped in on June 24 with a message to De | Valera, the chosen leader of the great majority in southern Ireland asking him to come to London for a conference with himself and Sir James Craig. the first Ulster premier. On June 2s De Valera accepted. but insisted that all Irish leaders first ought to meet in Dublin to settle the Irish differences on Irish soil.
 Craig declined. but the invitation was accepted by southern Ireland headed by Lord Middleton, great Tory politician, who is supposed to have been influenced by his sister For years she has worked to. alleviate | the distress of the peasantry anu sympathizes with their aspirations. The government showed its good intentions by beginning to release Sim Fein leaders from prison. among them Arthur Griffiths. vitc president of Dali Eireann. the Sim Fein parlia- ment.
 American Independence T,ay may be forever a memorable date in Irish
 history because. while thousands ci Irishmen waved the American flag ir Dublin. De Valera ana Grifsiths met Southern Unionists on that day al the Mansion House there.
 l Among other things proposed was 8 truce between the fighting forces This finally was agreed upoE July $ and was made effective July II. General McReady. commanding the crown forces, signed for the govern ment, while the signe- for Sim Fe.n was Micheal Collins. tbe picturesque daredevil commander of the Irish Re publican army. for whom crown forces had been vainly searching fol more than two years.
 Shuts Prominent Figure
 romantic touch was added to tho proceedings by the fact that Genera Smuts. Boer premier of South Africa
 who once fought Britain, was iE- strumenta1 in arranging for the re- ception of De Valera. Collins. Grif-
 fiths and the other rebels.
 Shuts owes his great influence here to the fact that he has recon
 ciled Boers to British rule, by em-
 phasizing the irea,ioc1 they have
 under the dominion form of govern
 ment. He insisted that the saint
 thing can be done with Ireland if i
 is similarly given control of it's ov-r 1 affairs.
 Responsible Irishmen think curreIi
 events completely justify the live
 year camapign s.arte1 by the Sinr
 F'ein with the Easter uprising O
 1916. The next nigh spot in lrisf
 history came in May, 1917, wheI
 Lloyd George proposed settlement o
 the Irish question by having a con
 vention of all Irishmen to draft constitution for the country. All he asked was that thsy submi . constitution for better Soverrmea ! of Ireland within the empire. H'
 pledged the government to carry int effect any decision of the convention
 which secured the substantial agree ment of it's members.
 Sim Feiners declined to partcipat t' , unless the convention was left free tt decree complete independence Of Ire
 land; unless the English governmen , publicly pledged itself to the United States and the powers of Europe t' ratify the decision of the convention unless the convention consist of nom . but persons freely elected by adul
 suffrage of the people, and unles
 prisoner of war treatment was ac : corded to Irish captives in Brltisl ! jails.
 Sim Fein in Majority The convention failed, as Slnl
 Feiners abstained. as the Ulsterlte
 would not agree to join with the res .. of Ireland, and as the Premier him self refused to grant Ireland fisca autonomy.
 D The Irish people got their chanc ? to show how they felt when the gen
 eral parliamentary election of 191 s was held Outside of Ulster tn (Continued on page 2)