No Nearer Peace

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XI, Issue 241, 15 October 1921, Page 5

No Nearer Peace

THE IRISH NEGOTIATIONS. SIGNIFICANT OFFICIAL SILENCE. A MARKED DIVERGENCE. [By Cable.—Pro«» Association.— Copyright.! London,' October 12. The “Daily Telegraph” says expressions of tho Irish delegates immediately after the conference suggested that tho discussion had been animated. 1S supported by the answer Mr. Coilins gave to an American journalist, who asked: “When are you coming back' Mr. Collins quickly retorted: “I am not coming back.” Mr. Griffith, however, tactfully leaned out of the car and said: “We are coming back to-morrow morning.” The “Telegraph” adds that the British Government takes a serious view of the Sinn Fein announcement that the Republican Courts will sit all over Ireland.

It is untrue to say a crisis has yet been reached, but the differences are pronounced,—(A. and N.Z.) SOMETHING NEW NEEDED. London October 2. The “Times,” in a leading article, dealing with Mr. de Valera’s acceptance of Mr. Lloyd George’s invitation to a conference, states that tho i course of the negotiations has already disclosed that inasmuch as Sinn Fein idealism is above all else racial, , the character of the ultimate settlement must be something new—a constitutional innovation. It is essential that both sides should see before them as their goal a new relationship, differing from all past experiences, not merely in form, but in spirit.

The possibilities of future concord, as yet only visible to the eye of faith, must be boldly mortgaged to the uses of tho present.