John Morley: “Until I am released from politics by the solution of the Irish problem, I cannot even survey the field.”

The general situation in Egypt had latterly become one in which everything was governed by sheer military violence.

Is it natural effervescence, or is it deadly fermentation?

To stint Ireland in power which might be necessary or desirable for the management of matters purely Irish, would be a great error; and if she was so stinted, the end that any such measure might contemplate could not be attained.

This was a complete falsification of a whole set of our national promises.