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ULSTER'S OPPORTUNITY: 
A UNITED IRELAND. 
An International Question. 
OME RULE for Ireland and for all Ireland 
H has suddenly developed into a question of 
urgent international importance, by the 
universal recognition of the right of Small Nations 
to a government of their own choice. In reply to 
the American demand for a statement of their 
objects in the War England and her Allies in a 
joint Note declared their determination to enforce 
“the reorganisation of Europe, guaranteed by a 
stable settlement based alike on the principle of 
nationality and on the right which all peoples, 
whether great or small, have to full security and 
free economic development. . . . The liberation of 
the Italians, Slavs, Roumanians, Czechs and Slovacs 
from foreign dominion.” England, for herself, in- 
sisted with special emphasis on the rights of Small 
Nations in the eloquent memorandum of Mr. Balfour 
which accompanied the joint Note of the Allied 
Powers. 
As Foreign Secretary of the Empire, Viscount Grey, 
representing his Government and his nation, speaking 
on October 23rd, 1915, declared — 
“T take it on the word of the Primd Minister that we 
shall fight until we have established the supremacy and 
right of free development under equal conditions, each in 
accordance with its genius, of all States, great and small, as 
a family of civilised mankind 
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