1 wu in these circumstances that the Secretary of Stale for the Dominions had begun to prepare the way by establishing personal rela-Hons first with Mr. J, H. Dulanty, the High Commissioner of Eire in London, and ater with Mr. Eamon de Valera, the Prime Minister.
Mr. Chamberlain paid high tribute the work of Mr, Malcolm Macdonald, Secretary of State for the Dominions, observing that the conversations, which had terminated in stiecest, could never have been begun but for his untiring patience and sympathetic understanding.
'When the time had arrived for the conversations the Government, the Prime Minister explained, was deter= mined to make its scope' as wide as possible with a view to securing a Heneral agreement and to get com plete settlement on the four subjects demanded in the discussion. fiven everything away in return for payment of £10,000,000.
It did not end the quarrel between Ireland and Great Britain, he de-lared, because Mr. de Valera had said that he would never rest until partition was swept away.
Me. Churchill recalled the anti-British activities of the "dark forces of the Irish underworld" during wartime.
He said that the Anglo-trish Treaty Jef 1921, of which he was one of the few remaining signatories, had been repudiated and violated "in every detail by Mr. de Valera, When the Treaty of 1921 was being drafted he went on, the British Ad= miralty had advised him that without the use of Irish ports it would be very dificult, perhaps impossible, to feed the British Isles during war-
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