The Week

• How about self-determination for Ireland, now that Britain’s only got a half-Nelson on her?

• Legislatively, there is utter confusion regarding the chances of Home Rule in this session of Congress. Last year the Senate District Committee (including conservative Peter Dominick) unanimously approved a measure providing immediate Home Rule, and it passed the Senate with the customary lopsided margin given Home-Rule bills in that body. The House kept the Senate’s bill (S. 1118) but substituted the proposals for Rep. Sisk for a “temporary” charter form of government as a transition to complete Home Rule. This passed the House, and the measure is now resting once again in the Senate Finance Committee. Some Home-Rule opponents see the watered-down version as better than the real thing, and some Home- Rule advocates are willing to accept it as better than nothing, but Sen. Wayne Morse is talking filibuster. Combine threats of boycott and filibuster with the wide divergence between the Senate and House versions, in a year when congressmen are anxious to get home, and it looks like Freedom Later for the District of Columbia.

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• How about self-determination for Ireland, now that Britain’s only got a half-Nelson on her?

• Legislatively, there is utter confusion regarding the chances of Home Rule in this session of Congress. Last year the Senate District Committee (including conservative Peter Dominick) unanimously approved a measure providing immediate Home Rule, and it passed the Senate with the customary lopsided margin given Home-Rule bills in that body. The House kept the Senate’s bill (S. 1118) but substituted the proposals for Rep. Sisk for a “temporary” charter form of government as a transition to complete Home Rule. This passed the House, and the measure is now resting once again in the Senate Finance Committee. Some Home-Rule opponents see the watered-down version as better than the real thing, and some Home- Rule advocates are willing to accept it as better than nothing, but Sen. Wayne Morse is talking filibuster. Combine threats of boycott and filibuster with the wide divergence between the Senate and House versions, in a year when congressmen are anxious to get home, and it looks like Freedom Later for the District of Columbia.