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What in any way pleases the North is not at

all likely to please those intransigeant elements in the Free State who arc now making Mr. Cosgrave's position so insecure. The only hope seems to be in giving the whole subject a rest. Time, we must thankfully remember, though it brings its revenges and its ironies, also brings healing. There are already signs, North and South, that a sense of the economic disadvantages of having Ireland divided into two parts is becoming a more weighty factor relatively to the traditional rivalries of religion and racial attach- ment. Time alone can bring matters to the point where animosities will be found so inconvenient and so 'ruinous that they must be discarded.

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