IRISH PEACE.

Taranaki Daily News, 8 September 1921, Page 5

IRISH PEACE.

A LABOR MESSAGE. CONFERENCE FAVORED. WITHOUT DELAY. By Telegraph.—PreM Assn —Copyright Received September 7, 7.40 p.m. London, Sept. 7. In connection with the Cardiff trade union congress, the Parliamentary Committee and national executive of the Labor Party sent the following message to Mr. Lloyd George on Tuesday night: “The Irish negotiations have entered on a most critical stage. It would be a disaster if the deep, spontaneous feelings in favor of peace, which are now pervading the two countries, were allowed to evaporate while their representatives are engaged in exchanging controversial notes. The British Government, in our opinion, should invite representatives of the Irish people to meet them face to face at a conference. The promotion of peace involves personal negotiation in conference, in order that the British Government and the Irish leaders may escape a verbal controversy and arrive at the recognition of the realities of the problem. The termination of the negotiations would, according to you, mean a resumption of hostilities in an intensified form. We declare emphatically that a new war would outrage the moral sense of the whole world, and would never receive the British people's sanction. The trade union and Labor movement in this counrty must insist on the assembly of a peace conference without delay. We believe this is the desire of the citizens of both countries, and that, once continuous conversations supersede written communications, many obstacles to reconcifiation would disappear and the negotiations be carried to a successful issue.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.

THE WILL FOR PEACE. PITT’S WORK MUST BE SCRAPPED. London, Sept. 6. Mr. De Valera, in a statement to the Press, says: “It seems a grievous political sin in these days to keep your eyes open, and commonsense is sneered at as rhetoric. British Imperial salesmen are trying to sell Ireland second-rate political margarine, and are very angry because we don’t accept the buttdr label they put on it. Iceland wants butter, and won’t be deceived into thinking she has got it until it is delivered. We have the will and the ardent desire for peace, and for that reason refuse to see things other than they are. If England is issuing an ultimatum, let it be an ultimatum. Pitt’s work must be scrapped and the debris cleared away to get a foundation for a real natural union between Britain and Ireland.”