A BRIGHTER OUTLOOK

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLI, Issue XLI, 10 September 1921, Page 7

A BRIGHTER OUTLOOK

MR LLOYD GEORGE'S REPLY TO

LABOUR

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LONDON, Sep. 8.

The Daily Telegraph's Dublin correspondent states that Cabinet's iuvita4ion to the conference created an excellent impression in Dublin and* South Ireland. While exchanges of notes is continued' progress is impossible. The .temptation to score debating points -ilinded Irishmen to the vital issue. The Dail Eireann will immediately, "be summoned to' consider the letter, and the public are confident that the will be surmounted, even it it is necessary to appeal to the country for decision. LONDON, Sep. 9.

Conan Doyle, in a letter, suggests •that men and women of Irish extraction, who have been supporters ot Borne Rule, but do not wish to be made foreigners in the British Empire, should petition De Valera. He says he -does not think Irishmen realise that •separation would make them foreigners in the Empire which Irish soldiers and colonists helped to build. Their status yin Australia and India would be the same as that of Russians and Slovaks. "I am sure many of us who are of Irish extraction and supported Home Rule view such a position with horror." , t

Mr Lloyd George, replying to the "Trade Union Congress message regarding Ireland, says: '*No one is more -opposed than the Government to bloodshed, most of all to a fratricidal war citizens of the same Empire; 'but I have the authority of the greatest democratic statesmen in history tor ~fche belief that even bloodshed is bet--ter than disruption of the living political organism, whose strength and unity "are essential to thf^freedom of "the world."

. Received Sept. 10, 9.10 a.m. LONDON,-Sept. 9. The Irish News says: "A general feeling prevails that the Irish delegates will meet Cabinet at Inverness.

The Irish Independent sees no reason why statesmanship should not succeed In hammering out a settlement. The Belfast Newsletter says that the reopening of the door to a conference which tm Sinn Fein itself closed is good statesmanship, on the principle of giving Smn Fein all the rope it needs. The Irish Times decares: "If the offer is 1-ejected we>hall find in that calamity a minute grain of consolation. The whole wide world will know that men who could spurn the-nation's greatest opportunity since the days of Henry lit are unfit to lead this or any other country." * ■.