He was also, as the Minister responsible alike for carrying a Home Rule Act and for denying to it operation, specially bound in such a pass as this to be guided largely by the judgment of the man who but for that postponement would have been head of an Irish Government.

But, under the various pressures of the moment, Mr.Asquith moved in a wholly different direction.

Redmond's appeal and advice went totally disregarded.

Yet Redmond knew Ireland as no Englishman could know it; and his hands were clean of guilt for what had happened.

Mr.Asquith by his past inaction, his Tory colleagues by their action before the war, were deeply involved in responsibility.