Lord Birkenhead went on to say that Lord Carson had
spoken of Lord Curzon, a man whose whole life had been one of great service to the State, as "a traitor to be repelled from theacquaint- ance of decent people." " Those are wild and foolish words." Neither Lord Salisbury nor Lord Carson had made " any con- tribution to any alternative policy." Lord Carson's "construc- tive effort at statecraft would be immature on the lips of an hysterical school girl." As for the Duke of Northumberland, he seemed to regard " every soldier as a super-man, every politician as either a rogue or a fool, and every working man as a Bolshevik." The alternative to this Settlement was war. But even at the end of a war there would still have to be a settle- ment. Nothing would be gained. In the division 47 voted for the Duke of Northumberland's amendment and 106 against.
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