Word: dominione
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...case is not at all parallel between the colonies and Ireland today. The colonies were not offered every indulgence, Home Rule, Dominion government if so there certainly would have been no Revolutionary war. The Irish are not bowed down under taxes that threaten to ruin trade. The colonies were not treacherous to the mother country in times of war (to wit: the French and Indian war) as were the Irish during the great war. In fact the points of similarity are so few that it is ridiculous to say that the cases are parallel...
...solution of the Irish problem is to be sought under the general plan of the Cabinet's proposal, but with the terms of that proposal widely extended. England has already solved, in a somewhat similar way, the problem of two apparently irreconcilable groups in the same dominion. A grant of autonomy under separate legislatures solved the difficulty, in the last century, of the French Canadians in Quebec and the English inhabitants of the other Canadian provinces. The case of Ulster and the rest of Ireland is similar. If the Prime Minister's plan were extended, allowing Ireland a much wider...