24 SEPTEMBER 1921, page 1

News Of The Week.

A PLENTIFUL shower of correspondence between Mr. Lloyd George and Mr. De Valera has followed the drought in the negotiations which we recorded last week. Explicitly, Mr. De......

On The Same Day Mr. De Valera Telegraphed That He

had already accepted an invitation to the conference, and that he did not ask Mr. Lloyd George " to abandon any principle, even in- formally." " But, surely," he added, " you......

Immediately Mr. Lloyd George Knew That This Letter Had Been

published in Dublin he telegraphed a letter to Mr. De Valera cancelling the proposed conference at Inverness. In this letter he pointed out that he had informed the Sinn Fein......

On Monday Mr. Lloyd George Telegraphed That Mr. De Valera's

letter had not modified the claim that the Irish delegates should be regarded as the representatives of " a sovereign and independent State." Mr. Lloyd George called Mr. De......

On Friday Evening, September 18th, Mr. Do Valera...

letter to Mr. Lloyd George, in which he said : " I am surprised that you do not see that, if we on our side accepted the conference on the basis of your letter of September 7th......

Mr. Lloyd George Returned To The Charge Last Saturday (sep-

tember 17th), when he. pointed out that it would be stile to say that a conference in which the Irish delegates appeared as representatives of an independent and sovereign State......

Mr. De Valera's Letter In Which He Accepted The Conference

and then refused the one condition on which the conference was offered was published in London on Thursday evening, Septem- ber 15th. He began by saying, " We have no hesitation......

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