The Morning Post of last Saturday published a letter from
Sir Edward Carson in which he pointed out that the Timm had, charged him with suffering "a terrible and humiliating defeat" because the Ulster Council had decided to support a. Six-County Parliament in Ulster. " It may interest your readers," Sir Edward. Carson goes on, " to know that in 1916 Lord Northcliffe, at Mr. Lloyd George's request, urged me to press the Ulster people to accept a settlement—' this most reasonablesettlement --eliminating the six counties from the Parliament set up by the Home Rule Act of 1914 ! " Sir Edward Carson adds that ff he has suffered, as the Times says, " a terrible and humiliating defeat," Lord Northcliffe ought surely, " with his well-known journalistic fairness and generosity, to take hie full shsre of the responsibility."
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