Two Irishmen negotiated a difficult compromise with that amiably typical John Bull, Premier Stanley
Baldwin. The two Irishmen were Sir James Craig, Premier of Ulster,* and President Cosgrave of the Irish Free State.
The compromise which they at length agreed upon concerned the much contested frontier between Ulster and the Irish Free State between industrial Protestant Northern Ireland and agrarian Catholic Southern Ireland. For many months the Irish Boundary Commission, created under Article XII of the Treaty of 1921 between Great Britain and the Irish Free State, has been attempting to decide how this vital...
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