The effect of the change would be the utter annihilation of the political power of the most orderly, the most loyal, the most educated classes of Ireland, and the swamping of one-fourth of the community, representing two-thirds of its property.
Morley warns that changes in political power could lead to the marginalization of loyal and educated classes in Ireland.
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The general situation in Egypt had latterly become one in which everything was governed by sheer military violence.
This was a complete falsification of a whole set of our national promises.
This is no mere case of barren wrangle and verbal recrimination.
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