The Archbishop of York appeals to Parliament in Monday's Tannin
abandon manceuvring and recrimination, and honestly face the facts of the Irish crisis in a reasonable spirit. While urging the Coalition to waive their insistence on impractic- able proposals as to the time-limit and area of Exclusion, he asks the Unionists to realize that the mere exclusion of Ulster is no solution of the problem. The only way of fulfilling the hopes of a United Ireland, expressed both by Mr. Redmond and Sir Edward Carson, is" that the exclusion of Ulster should be accompanied by a serious attempt to think out and present to Parliament a system of devolution ha which Ireland would have a place, first doubtless in time, but not essentially exceptional." At present the Government and their supporters have no proper sense of the perils of drifting and waiting on circumstances, while the Opposition are unwilling to recognize that the Irish problem is too great and deep to he solved by merely supporting the resistance of Ulster and discrediting the Government.
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