The government would pretty certainly refuse a select committee, and what would be the advantage to him in the minds of persons inclined to think him guilty, of making a demand which he knew beforehand would be declined?
Morley questions the strategic value of demanding a select committee when the outcome is likely predetermined.
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I don't myself believe in artful diplomacy; I have no gift for it.
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.
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