John Morley: “Seldom has the sovereign been made the mouthpiece of an utterance more shortsighted.”

The plan for Ireland ought to be produced by the government of the day.

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

Do not weary or fret or nag him with your superior wisdom.

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