Last paragraph of your link as you apparently didn't get down that far.
What have you been told about "carefully selective quotes"
The Buckingham Palace conference was an altruistic but futile attempt to broker a partition arrangement; there was little incentive to make concessions despite there being no shortage of ideas on how 'statutory Ulster' could be composed. George Dangerfield best summarised matters: 'Only an earthquake or general conversion could have settled the problem: and the sorrows of the conference were due to the fact that it was attempting to decide by Act of Parliament what could only be effected by ACT OF GOD'.
Jim Carroll