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• Perhaps it will be asked,. Why if this is

inevitable do we trouble so much about the matter P If people like a farce why not let it be-played out P Our answer is that apart from the great loss of dignity and prestige to which we have just alluded there is always the danger that, during the continuation of the crisis, temper on both sides may rise so high that the leaders will not be able to carry out the strategie operation which they. now contemplate. To put it M another way, it is always possible that the Unionist leaders will not be able to whip off their hounds at the last moment, and that, without anybody exactly knowing whose fault it is, the: Houseof Lords will commit an even greater blunder than they committed when they threw out the Budget.

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