Collins, confessing to all this in the interview, declared There will be no compromise and no negotiations with any British Jovernment until Ireland is recognized as an Independent Republic.
Mr. Ackerman's comment on that is Considering the fact that Collins is the Irish Republican Minister of nance, that he is regarded by responsible officials of the British Government as being the—secret leader of the Sinn Fein movement, and that his orders are said to be regarded as ultimatums in Ireland, the above statement seems to dispose of all hope of an: Irish settlement on the basis of Dominion Home Rule, Dual Home Rule, or Independence within the British Empire, as far as the present leaders of Sinn Fein are concerned.
Collins went on to say that Mr. Lloyd George's words were not
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