Lord Longford gives a different account in Peace by Ordeal: "The only doubt in de Valera's mind, as he explained to Lloyd George, arose from the current dispute among Gaelic purists whether the idea Republic was better conveyed by the broader 'Saorstát' or the more abstract 'Poblacht'."Peace by Ordeal: : An Account, from First-hand Sources, of the Negotiation and Signature of the Anglo-Irish Treaty, 1921, Frank Pakenham Earl of Longford, New English Library, 1967, page 73
