ULSTER AND HOME RULE.
[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR.—In your issue of the 11th inst. you say that Ulster has never claimed the right to veto Home Rule for the rest of Ireland. I venture to call your attention to the wording of the Covenant, in which those who signed it pledged themselves to use "all means which may be found necessary to defeat the present conspiracy to set up a Home Rule Parliament in Ireland." The italics are my • [Lord Arran is of course quite right about the wording of the Covenant. What we should have said was that in practice Ulster has not claimed the right to veto Home Rule for the rest of Ire- land. The Ulster Unionist Members supported the amendment Is the Home Rule Bill which merely asked for the exclusion of Ulster. Ultimately they demanded no more than the exclusion of the Six North-Eastern Counties.—Eo. Spectator.]
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