An Irish Constituent Convention. By E. A. Aston. (Dublin :
The Kenny Press. ls.)—Mr. Aston, an Irish Nationalist, proposes the election of an Irish Convention by proportional representation, and the submission of its draft Constitution to the League of Nations as arbitrator between Great Britain and Ulster on the one side and the Nationalists on the other. If we believe in the League, we have, he says, " everything to gain, and nothing worth retaining to lose, by proposing the first voluntary act of international confidence." He thinks that an elected Convention would propose something practical, because " the presumption is that Irishmen in the aggregate are not fools." British people, recalling the exceeding per- versity of Irish Nationalists in backing the wrong horse during the war, may very well hesitate to accept Mr. Aston's pre- sumption. If Sinn Feiners, and Nationalists in a lesser degree, had not espoused the enemy's cause, they could have counted on the traditional generosity of Great Britain. As it is, they have no claim to special privileges.
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