The able writer who signs himself " Pacificus " has
been continuing, apropos of the Veto Conference, his Constitutional studies in the Times. In effect he proposes, though in terms so cloudy that we may presume they are based upon some form of official inspiration, that the present Conference should be succeeded by something in the nature of a larger Conven- tion, the business of that Convention being to discuss in detail
the whole of the great Constitutional problems which it ,is understood the Conference has dealt with in outline. Opposed as we are to abandoning the true Unionist policy—the policy of an incorporating Union under which Ireland can receive the maximum of help from the rest of the United Kingdott- as the solution of the Irish question, we are not in any sense opposed to a Convention such as "Pacificus" apparently desires. On the contrary, we should welcome such a discus- sion, assuming, of course, that the Convention was in no sense "packed," but had on it representatives of the true Unionism as well as of the New Federalism.
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