. An olive branch in Ireland, and its history. eard of truly he had diagnosed that disease of suspiciousnesswhich afflicts the Irish majority and minority alike may bejudged from the fact that one of the first imputations suggestedby the Attorney-General (now Lord Atkinson) against theDevolution scheme, when it was published eighteen monthsafterwards, was : Whether the Devolution scheme is not theprice secretly arranged to be paid for Nationalist acquiescencein the settlement of the Land question on generous terms ? As a matter of fact no suggestion, however remote, of anyDevolution sch


. An olive branch in Ireland, and its history. eard of truly he had diagnosed that disease of suspiciousnesswhich afflicts the Irish majority and minority alike may bejudged from the fact that one of the first imputations suggestedby the Attorney-General (now Lord Atkinson) against theDevolution scheme, when it was published eighteen monthsafterwards, was : Whether the Devolution scheme is not theprice secretly arranged to be paid for Nationalist acquiescencein the settlement of the Land question on generous terms ? As a matter of fact no suggestion, however remote, of anyDevolution scheme was made from either side at the LandConference. In May 1905, when the Land Purchase Act was alreadyin full progress, the subject was renewed in many conver-sations between Mr, Wyndham, Sir Antony MacDonnell,and Lord Dunraven—the subject of the co-ordination of theCastle Boards, and consequently of some co-ordinating Irishauthority having been, it will be remembered, one of thereforms to effect which Mr. Wyndham solicited Sir Antony 318. ritoto, La/aycllc, Dublin. COLONEL \V. Ill ICHESON rOK, !.


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