Ulster's opportunity

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Identifikator:: 1878634100

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-276030

Document type:: Monograph

Title:: Ulster's opportunity

Place of publication:: London

Publisher:: Unwin

Year of publication:: 1917

Scope:: 35 S.

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

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{ 71 was the blackest page in her history, and was uni- versally condemned by the whole civilised world. England then treated the opinion of the civilised world with self-complacent contempt. She can no longer assume the same self-complacency, when Mr. Gladstone’s faithful lieutenant, Mr. Asquith, declares “ throughout the length and breadth of the British Empire and the whole of the King’s dominions the one derided failure of our statesmanship is to be found close to our own borders in Ireland.” A dozen years ago Mr. Roosevelt, then President of the United States, said to me in the White House : “J can thoroughly understand the feelings of Irish- men. No one can read their history and fail to appreciate them, It was the history of Mr. Lecky that first made me a Home Ruler; I cannot under- stand how the author of that description of the Union could be himself a Unionist. I cannot understand how any man could read that history, far less write it, without becoming a Home Ruler. It seems to me that expedience as well as justice are so strongly in favour of the reform that it cannot be long denied to [reland.” The publication of this opinion by the eminent ruler of the greatest of free nations excited hardly a ripple of interest in England. But England cannot afford to be indifferent to-day, when Mr. Roosevelt writes in response to the Irish Party (— «1 most earnestly hope that full Home Rule will be given to Ireland—Home Rule relatively to the Empire such as Texas or Maine or Oregon now enjoys relatively to the National Government at Washington. Of course, Ireland should remain part of the Empire. Ihave no more sympathy with the irreconcilable extremists on one side of the question than on the other. I am sure that the Canadians and Australians feel in this matter exactly as Americans do, and that both permanently, and as regards this particular war, it would be an immense advantage to the Empire to give Ireland Home Rule.”

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