John Morley: “For the measure is of immense importance and of no less nicety, and here it all depends on me.”

I am trying to feel my way through the most difficult problem, the most difficult situation that a responsible Government can have to face.

There lay Ireland,—squalid, dismal, sullen, dull, expectant, sunk deep in hostile intent.

But we have no right to cast on him any responsibility beyond what is strictly military.

We do not know how to leave India, and therefore let us see if we know how to govern it.