By " no partition " the Commission means that there
should be Dominion Home Rule in Ireland, and that self -determinition for North-East Ulster should be laughed out of court. In these circumstances the " protection of minorities " postulated by the Commission means little or nothing. Although the Commission has the grace to say that the Republican demands of Shin Fein are impossible, it thinks that Dominion Home Rule would satisfy the majority. Did the Commission try to find out how much, or rather how little, support has been given to Sir Horace Plunkett's organization which works for Dominion Home Rule ? But the Commission has an alternative which is open to as many objections as the Dominion Home Rule scheme. It proposes that the form of self-government to be established might be drawn up by an Irish Constituent Assembly representing the whole people and elected by Proportional Representation. Perhaps the most futile phrase in the whole Report is a reference to " the neglect of Irish industry under the Union." Why, the whole of the prosperity in the North-East of Ulster has been
built up under the Union, and largely because of the Union.
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