undiminished numbers, and the Irish Executive would have no right
of entry into the excluded area " When these counties have been excluded there must be adjustments, administrative and financial, in the application of the Bill to the rest of Ireland. It is not on those points that the chance of a peaceful settlement really depends. If the broad principle is agreed on, then I think it is much better that we should not commit ourselves to a out-and-dried method at this moment."
Mr. Asquith ended his speech by declaring that his proposals were put forward as the price of peace. No one either in Ireland or here was in love with Exclusion for its own sake. He did not therefore expect that the proposals would be received with enthusiasm in any quarter, but he did ask for deliberate and dispassionate consideration.
