At all events, no one disputed that it was to Ireland's interest financially that a settlement should be made.
It is quite unnecessary to summarize here in any detail the course of these general discussions in full Convention, which began on August 21st.

One thing, however, resulted from them on which too much emphasis cannot be laid.

In the process of "exploring each other's minds," as the phrase went, we came to know and to like one another.

Later in the year, a friend of mine, high placed in the Ulster Division, but not an Ulsterman by upbringing or sympathy, came home from France.

He told me that the main impression on the minds of Ulster delegates had been made by the Nationalist County Councillors.