In the house of Commons on Tuesday, when the Bill.
embodying this Agreement passed through all its Stages,. the Prime Minister was able to pay a handsome tribute to everybody concerned ---to Mr. Cosgrave and his colleagues who had. spontaneously offered to increase the compensation to the victims of damage, to Mr. Justice Feetham and Mr. J. R. Fisher who had .alkiwed no sense of injured pride to stand in the way of Settlethent, and to Sir James Craig who had behaved most helpfully and with magnanimity. After all, the 'work Of the Commissioners has not been wasted, for as we suggested last week—and we are flattered to see that the Prime Minister has been thinking the same thing—the. work of the Commission has made both Irish Governments recognize how terrible the results of an imposed boundary would be. Thus failure, by a happy paradox, has made everybody more disposed to peace. Certainly the Commissioners have not laboured-in
