The Washington herald., 1921-11-04
GREEN and ORANGE
FLAG FOR ALL ERIN
NEARS IN PROSPECT
Britain to Urge Ulster to
Accept Fellowship in
Shamrock.

Special Gable to The washinsten Heraid.)
LONDON. Nov. s.-Great Britain
and the Sim Fein have arrived at
a substantial agreement as to the
future government of ireland, but
1t Is dependent on agreement of Ul-
ster. Both sides are now await
ing the arrival of Sir James Craig
on Saturday, when IL is expected
that he win go into conference with
Prime Minister Lloyd George on the
new proposals.
/ Both the Sim Feiners and the
British are hopeful of his accept
ance. for he has already declared
his wish for peace "at a fair price"
The plan Of settlement calls for en-
larging the power and democratic
ing the council of ireland SO as to
make IL a real Irish parliament
Under the present act the members
are partly elected and partly NOM
mated by the crown anI. the Ulster
six counties have equal representa-
tion with all the rest OF ireland
Pledges Must Go.
The Sinn .Fein insists and the
Prime Minister agrees that the
council should be Economically
elected and the representation
should be based on population. The
British. however. are pledged not TO
take from Ulster without it's con-
sent any Of the privileges granted
under the act and the next step
therefore IL to gain listers con-
sent to give up its unfair advantage
in the council.
In return for this concession the
Sim Fein is willing to abandon its
claim for the independence of Ire
land and to grant to Ulster the
widest measure of autonomy in the
Irish state. II Ulster refuses the
Prime Minister is said to have de-
clared that he would resign rather
than to undertake the task either
of coercing Ulster, except in case
Il violated its repeated pledges. or
Of coercing the rest Of ireland after
Ulster had blocked the success of a
fair agreement.
Clever Political Move.
This is a very clever political
move, for there is no doubt that
Ulster would lose ali the sympathy
of the British people and whoever
was returned to office would have
q mandate to settle the Irish ques-
tion without regard TO its claims
II is believed that Sir James is
fully aware of this state of affairs
and is likely to be reasonable.
There was no formal meeting sf
either the conference or the Rig
Four today and there probably will
not be until Lloyd George has seen
Sir James. but the relations be-
tween Downing Street and Chelsea
has now reached such a stage that
informal meetings between indi-
viduals from both sides are being
arranged at a few minutes notice
to discuss specific points as they
arise.
II Sir James agrees to the set
tlement thus broadly sketched the
prime minister almost certainly
will sail for Washington in a week
or two. leaving the conference to
work out the details. which will
be task Of months
II means that an entire>aew Irish
constitution will have to be drawn
and approved. line by line, all sorts
Of financial adjustments arranged
and the transfer of services worked
out The plan indicated was
adopted after IL had become clear
that the alternatives Of transfer
ring Tyrone and Fermanagh from
Ulster and Of drawing an entirely
new frontier, cutting through the
county lines, were -impracticable.
The transfer of the whole Of the
two counties would have been re-
sisted by the large Protestant
minority with the active support
OF the rest OF Ulster, while any at.
tempt to delimit the frontier on the
Upper Silesia principle would have
caused more trouble than the Upper
siiesian delimitation itself.
(cepyright. is1l.)