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Show IRISH PROBLEM. Recent hints that Lloyd George's government was formulating an Irish policy which might lean, towards the scheme proposed by Sir Horace Plunk-ett's Plunk-ett's Irish Dominion league do not appear ap-pear to be borne out by developments in the commons. Indeed, Sir Horace entertains no undue expectations in that direction. The Irish leader has announced that there is no foundation for the suggestion that the Dominion league is "Lloyd George inspired." Ho adds that the prime minister, on tho contrary, has given no moro encouragement encourage-ment to the riunkett proposal than to the Sinn Fein movement, and tho government gov-ernment is doing its best to repress the activities of tho latter organization. The Dominion league is composed of Irishmen who believe that a republic is unattainable and undesirable, taking issue with De Valera and his associates, associ-ates, but who think that a prompt measure of home rule on colonial lines is not only possible but desirable Against both proposals Sir Edward Carson and the irreconcilable Ulsterites under his leadership are campaigning. It is the Ulsterites, as well as the Sinn Feiners, who are to be taken into account ac-count ill considering the problem eon-fronting eon-fronting Lloyd George. The difficulty is apparent enough to explain the caution cau-tion with which the premier approaches the task of settling a question which must be settled eventually and settled permanently. |