Monday's Times contains the second instalment of a series of
articles entitled " Ireland of To-Day," written by a correspondent. He tells us that the Ulster leaders are ready " to stand by ' exclu- sion' " of the homogeneous area of the six counties, but that they " decline resolutely to consider any other concessions," no matter how sweeping or how generous. Given exclusion of that area, sayV the -correspondent-of the Times," they are prepared to keep-an open mind," and if the Irish Parliament proves its capacity to govern they are not averse from the idea of one day sending representatives to
that Parliament. " Although such a contingency in their view is extremely remote, they realize how greatly to their advantage as an industrial community would be the consummation of a united Ireland." Further, they hint that, in view of the fact that they have flourished without Government aid, and that Southern Ireland has had a great deal of Government aid and has not flourished, they naturally feel that union with Nationalist Ireland might mean that Nationalist Ireland would live upon them as a substitute for living upon England.
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