IMPORTANT STATEMENT.
MR. ASQUITH AND HOME RULE. A DISSOLUTION, AND A NATIONAL - • ; . SCHEME. 'v. , , NOT MERE. DEVOLUTION. ( ' (Rec. April 21, 10.58 p.m.) London, April 21. Mr; Churchill, in a speech at Manchester, said ho was convinced that a National spt-. tlement of Irish difficulties was.indispensable ;to any harmonious conception of Liberalism. ■He had Mr. Asquith's concurrence in saying . tliat if .Parliament was dissolved'tlie.'Liberal ■ party''. should claim full' authority and. ,a' free hand to doal with the problem of Irish selfrgovernment withoutbeing restricted to mere.measures of.devolution liko'the abandoned^lrish Councils Bill. '. ■" . Mr. Asquith has declared on previous occasions that the Liberal party: will not proceed with Home Rule. duVing,' the life-time of tho present Parliament, 'and that "to- do'so; with" a." .majority, secured .for free trade,-[.would be "a piece of political, dishonesty."-, , A dissolution would, of coiirsc, wipo. these undertakings out,.- ;
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 178, 22 April 1908, Page 7
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139IMPORTANT STATEMENT. Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 178, 22 April 1908, Page 7
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