Ulster's opportunity

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Identifikator:: 1878634100

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-276030

Document type:: Monograph

Title:: Ulster's opportunity

Place of publication:: London

Publisher:: Unwin

Year of publication:: 1917

Scope:: 35 S.

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

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[ 27 1] reconsideration of the question of exclusion by the Imperial Parliament, and it at least makes some pretence of preserving the integrity of the Nation by the establishment of a Coalition Council for all Ireland. But events have travelled rapidly since Mr. Lloyd George's first proposal was accepted, from all quarters, Nationalist and Unionist, has come a vehement protest against even a temporary mutilation of Ireland. The memorandum of the Irish bishops, Catholic and Protestant, is a notable illustration of the strength of feeling on the subject. The suggested dismember- ment of the country was largely responsible for the srowth of the Sinn Fein movement. In a self- governed Ireland that movement would rapidly disappear. Mr. Lloyd George is too intelligent not to have known that the Irish Party could not now accept a policy of dismemberment if they would, and that they would not if they could. His real proposal was in the postscript of his letter to Mr. Redmond ; “The assembling of a Convention of Irishmen of all parties for the purpose of producing a scheme of [rish Self-Goverment.” At such a Convention in no quarter will the mutilation of Ireland find support, and the Nationalists will be eager to make all pos- sible concessions to secure a United Ireland. It is to be hoped the Convention will be thoroughly representative of all shades of Irish opinion. For Chairman, General Smutts would be an admirable selection. There was much to be said for the genuine policy of the Unionists, Mr. Balfour, in a recent speech, most eloquently lamented the lost hope that Ireland, like Scotland, might grow prosperous and contented under the existing form of government. But there is nothing to be said from any point of view in favour of the policy of exclusion when it has once failed as a tactical stratagem to avert the concession of Home ule.

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