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• In other words, if this forecast be correct, the

Government intend to offer to Ulster nothing but Home Rule within Home Rule. It is quite certain that this would not be accepted by the Protestants of the North. Civil war would be the inevitable Sequel, because they would regard war as a lesser evil than subordination to the Dublin Parliament. English Unionists could do nothing to prevent war if this is all the Government haVe• to offer. But we cannot help thinking that there is nevertheless the material for a settlement in the case even as stated by the Daily Chronicle. We have made the suggestion before, but may repeat it, that if the Poet Office and Customs Clauses were withdrawn the way would be open for a compro- mise effecting what would be called " temporary " exclusion.

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