JOHN REDMOND.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XL, Issue 1828, 18 May 1918, Page 2

JOHN REDMOND.

MUCH that is said about dead men is usually camouflage, writes the Post’s London correspondent, but there was no questioning the sincerity of the tributes paid to John ivedmoud in the House of Commons. As Mr Asquith said, he was the unchallenged leader of the Nationalist Party from the day he was elected to succeed “one of the greatest Irishmen —Parnell,” until his death. Sir Edward Carson, who for twentylive years had led his opponents, the Ulster Unionists, said that during the whole of that time he could not recall a single bitter personal word that had passed between them. “When the political position in Ireland was most threatening and the conference at Buckingham Palace broke up without any result, I re-

member John Redmond coming up to me as we passed out of the gates of the Palace and saying: '.For the sake of good old times oil the Leinster Circuit, let us have a good shakebands/ and , Mr Speaker, wq had. (Hear, hear.) Only in 1916, after the rebellion in Ireland, when the present Prime Minister tried to effect a settlement, I had several conversations with John Redmond, and, indeed, he and I were not very far apart in our attempts at settle•buent. (Hear, hear-.) The influences which prevented us it is not for me to dwell upon now, but I remember well his saying to me, ‘Unless we can settle this interminable business, you and I will be dead before anything has happened to pacify Ireland.”