Word: craige
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...purpose of discussing new plans for the settlement of the Irish Boundary dispute (TIME, June 2), Premier MacDonald invited to Chequers Court President Cosgrave of the Irish Free State and Sir James Craig of Northern Ireland...
...Boundary Commission. The British Government took immediate steps to appoint a commissioner, but one person after another refused the job, the latest being ex-Premier Sir Robert Borden of Canada. The British Government also called upon the Government of Northern Ireland to appoint their commissioner, but Premier Craig stoutly refused, declaring that "not a yard of our territory will be handed over to a foreign flag," and " if the frontier is attacked, we are entitled to the support of the British Army and Navy to protect our boundary...
...only road out of the difficulty was: 1) direct settlement between Cosgrave and Craig; 2) appointment by the King on the advice of the British Government of a commissioner to represent Northern Ireland; 3) settlement by the Privy Council...
...James Craig has been reviled and praised by Irishmen more than any other denizen of the Emerald Isle. Of course, the Irishmen that do the reviling will not admit that Sir James or any of his admirers are Irishmen, while the Irishmen that do the praising stoutly affirm that they are every bit as Irish as those who revile...
...James Craig was born in County Down 53 years ago, became first a soldier, then a politician, held several important Government positions in the Imperial Parliament, then became on June 7, 1921 first Premier of Northern Ireland...