Sir Edward Carson shot the question at him: "Will you agree to it ?" Seldom does the House see a practised speaker so much embarrassed; Redmond in confusion passed to another topic.

He was soon to be confronted with that same line of reasoning, pushed not dialectically by an opponent, but as a step in parliamentary negotiation from the Treasury Bench.

Mr.
Churchill, who introduced the Second Reading, made it apparent that the demonstration in Belfast had not been wasted on him.
"Whatever Ulster's rights may be," he said, "they cannot stand in the way of the whole of the rest of Ireland.

Half a province cannot impose a permanent veto on the nation.

The utmost they can claim is for themselves.