The Crisis in Ireland.

Press, Volume L, Issue 14956, 1 May 1914, Page 6

The Crisis in Ireland.

It was certainly significant that just "as affairs in Ireland wero looking at their worst. and an explosion might havo taken place at any moment,' Mr Churchill was put up to make a fresh offer on tho part of tho Government. It was Mr Churchill's truculenco at Bradford a few weeks ago which did so much to defeat Mr Asquith's evident desire to retreat from an untenable positron, and therefore there was something appropriate in tho fact that ho should be ..selected to convey tho new messago of peace. Sir E. Carson, with a touch of grim humour, said that tho violence of Mr Churchill's speech gave a gleam of hope, as he always played tho role of demagogue when making an •offer towards settlement. The groat point is, howevor, that tho two parties seem at length likely to como together, and even Mr Redmond states that if Sir E Carson accepts tho olivo branch held out to him, he (Mr Redmond) will endeavour to effect an honourable setIt is expected that this will take tho shapo of excluding Ulster until a Federal system is adopted for tho United Kingdom. Considering tho difficulties in tho way of Fodoralism, tins is very much like postponing' tie inclusion of Ulster till tho Greek Kaleids. Some of tho Liberal Party's organs aro exclaiming at what they call the weakness of tho Government, but the reduction of the Government majority to eighty en Mr Chamberlain's moticn is s-gnificant of tho temper of tho Houso. Tho truth is that Lhe count-y is jujt trembling on tho vorge of a civil war, which might not mc confined within the borders of Ireland, and not or.ly Ministers, but every responsible leader in tho House, must look with the utmost apprehension on tho further prolongation or 6uch a dangerous situation.