Word: craige
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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After a recent futile meeting between President Cosgrave of the Irish Free State, Premier Sir James Craig of Northern Ireland and J. H. Thomas, Secretary of State for the Colonies, the British Government decided to call the Boundary Commission provided for in the Free State Agreement...
President Cosgrave has all along desired the convocation of this commission, but Premier Craig claimed that the boundary between the North and South had already been fixed by the Government of Ireland Act of 1920; he stated that he was ready to discuss the matter directly with President Cosgrave, but not through the Boundary Commission...
...London went President Cosgrave of the Irish Free State Cabinet and Home Minister Kevin O'Higgins, there to meet Premier Sir "Jimmy" Craig of Ulster and his confreres in conference on the Irish boundary dispute...
Said Premier Craig: "I think both sides of the boundary conference conducted the meeting with credit, but agreement was impossible. We shall continue to maintain the same attitude on the boundary question as we have always done. There is no suggestion of a further meeting...
...invented. Torn letters are salvaged from waste baskets, and he who can patch them most cleverly wins the prize. Sprang, the butler, who is a devout Methodist and a bachelor, makes no secret of his disapproval of the goings on "upstairs." In this he has the unqualified support of Craig, the chauffeur. Meanwhile Louis Le Tour, the captain's man, enlivens the scene by making love to all the pretty servants of the opposite...