PROMISE TO ULSTER
VISCOUNT LONG'S LAST WORDS.
(ABSIRALIAN-NBW ZEALAND CABLE ASSOCIATION.) LONDON, 29th September. Realising the improbability of being alSie to participate in the Ulster boundary debates, Viscount Long, a few days before his death, sent a memorandum to the Earl of Selbourne, stating, " I most reluctantly took over charge if the 1920 Bill. The measure found no support anywhere. The Liberals boycotted it, and the bulk of the Conservatives only supported me through a personal appeal. Ulstermen stood coldly aloof. They did not wanfc the Bill, and were not inclined to support it. I saw Lord Carson and Sir James Craig, and concluded that it was only possible to obtain Ulstermen's support by giving a definite pledge on behalf of Cabinet to the six counties that it would be to their good, and all without interference with the boundaries, except slight adjustments, to get rid of projections." Viscount Long added that he brought this before Cabinet, which unanimously authorised this definite promise.
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Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 80, 1 October 1924, Page 5
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