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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 must understand that we can only recognize ourselves for what we are . . . I have already had conferences with you, and in these conferences and in my written communications 1 have never ceased to recog- nize myself for what I was and am." The last sentence of the letter was, " Believe me, we have but one object at heart—the setting up of the conference on such a basis of truth and reality as would make it possible to secure through it the result which the peoples of these two islands so ardently desire."

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