THE IRISH QUESTION.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LX, Issue LX, 29 October 1910, Page 5

THE IRISH QUESTION.

LORD HUGH CECIL ON HOME RULE.

WOULD DEFEAT IMPERIAL FEDERATION. BY CABLE— PRESS ASSOCIATION— COPYRIGHT. LONDON, Oct. 28. Lord Hugh Cecil, writing in the Times, states that Irish Home Rule was intended to recognise the separate nationality of Ireland. The Imperial Federation intended to organise a single nationality of Empire. Canada, Australia, South- Africa, and New Zealand came forward to declare pride and satisfaction at sharing the same national existence, and the United Kingdom would adopt a singular way of organising the Empire as a single nation, if it began by admitting the existence of two nations within the United Kingdom. He hoped it was unthinkable that any responsible Unionist leader would treat Home Rule as a possible expedient.