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The answer to such special pleading is of course that

the Liberals would have the full support of the Unionist Party in a truce, and that the Unionists would not dream of attempting to make any bargain for that support. They would not, before giving it, ask any modification of the Government's future policy. All they would say is : "If you agree to a truce, we will not allow the Irish to turn you out of office becanse of your patriotic action. To this the Liberal politician of our thought would perhaps repbr:—" That is all very well. You no doubt would refrain from turning us out of office, but when the trace was over next February, we should find ourselves exposed to the revenge of the Irish Members, who would consider that they had been betrayed.'