BOOR STILL OPEN TO AMICABLE SETTLEMENT.
LORD HAI_>AXE*S SCHEME. (By Cable.—Pxeee Associstion—Copj-right) LONDON, December 3. Lord Haldane, speaking at Birmingham, said that the Home Rule Bill was not inspired, and much remained to be discussed, while tl-«-* principle of a Parliament and E\ecutivo for Ireland was preserved. The Opposition should enter into negotiations prepared to make concessions. The right course would be that those most responsible, who might only be oue on each side, should talk with that unrestrained freedom with wliicn mc;.. could talk when talking to each other privately, as man to man, without tho restraint*, and temptations arising from debates witJin earshot of hot partisans. Mr H. L. Samuel, Postmaster-Gene-ral, and Sir J. A. Simon, AttorneyGeneral, denied that Mr Asquith inI tended to close the door to an amicable settlement.
Lord Lansdownc, speaking at the Scottish Constitutional Club, 6aid that Unionists were urging tho Government, with all their might and main, to do their duty in this crisis and make sure they were not governing democracy against its will He derided Mr Lloyd George's conten,tioi that Unionists wero using Ulster to obscure the land problem.
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Press, Volume XLIX, Issue 14841, 5 December 1913, Page 7
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