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...anticipation of trouble with Northern Ireland, misnamed Ulster, over the boundary disputes (TIME, March 31, May 5, May 26), recruiting for the Free State Army began...
...Government appointed John MacNeill as their commissioner on the 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 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...
...very difficult task that Sir James undertook when he formed his first ministry, but it has been largely through his undoubted good qualities as a statesman that he has been able to preserve an outward semblance of peace in his small corner of Ireland...