THE IRISH PROBLEM.

Colonist, Volume LXI, Issue 151034, 28 July 1919, Page 5

THE IRISH PROBLEM.

P%SK ENT WILSON'S PRINCIPLES INAPPLICABLE.

SPEECH BY MB LLOYD GEORGE

ESSENTIAL PRELIMINARIES TO SETTLEMENT.

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Tll +i tt London, July 25. trT-, n r Uf G °f Commo"s 3 replying f f r Devlin's appeal to applypps"c s" cS 7 IIST° n; S ai ld GeQeral touts' pri£ed Pif M ela rd' Mr Ll°yd G^rge asked ir.Mr Devlin would apply the prinS P kSu the Whole of Irela*d The real difficulty was that Mr Devlin's countryX,;* 6? 9 n?£ 6atisfied t0 set self-^----tei Donation themselves without depriving others of self-determination. , Continuing, he pointed out that he ?t? a™red, t0 aPPIy President .W&on s principles to Ireland by instituting the Irish Convention, whien vl r«>tO,x bring-the Parties together. Ihe diffionlty was that Ireland was not a nation, but three nations m race religion temperament and outlook. 'Until it budged its own gulf it was useless to talk of self-determination. He de- , spaired of any settlement until Iriahmen definitely resolved to face this difficulty. It was useless to quote President Wilson's principles unless the critics were prepared to apply them to the whole of Ireland.

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