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Show WILL RECONSIDER PEACE ACTION Premier's Reply Puts Situation Squarely Square-ly Up To Sinn Fein Dublin Faced with the choice between be-tween withdrawing from their Insistence Insis-tence upon recognition as n sovereign state or abandoning the conference up. on which the hopo of penco In Ireland rests, Sinn Fein's cnoinet met with President de Vnlcrn Monday. Ireland, hoping for peace nnd favoring favor-ing a conference despite the technical difficulties, anxiously awaited the decision. de-cision. Lloyd George's latest note, received Sunday, In which he explicitly Insisted Do Valcra must withdraw his clnlm to recognition of Ireland as a "sovereign "sover-eign state or forfeit tho right to a conference, added little to tho advancement ad-vancement of tho Irish situation except ex-cept to further clarify tho Issues. It was recognized there that the Dall cabinet must go to a conference on Lloyd George's terms, or risk civil war. Tho press urges acceptance of the premier's lnvltn(lon. |