As the Prime Minister has informed the House, it is with our concurrence
that he has made the suggestion which we have just heard. At a moment
like the present, when even those of us who do not share diplomatic
secrets feel that the statement of the Prime Minister is true, that
peace and war may be trembling in the balance, I think it is of the
utmost importance that it should be made plain to every one that,
whatever our domestic differences may be, they do not prevent us from
presenting a united front in the councils of the world. I am obliged to
the Prime Minister for saying that in the meantime party controversial
business will not be taken. I am sure that it is his intention, as it
would be the wish of the whole House, that this postponement will not in
any way prejudice the interests of any of the parties to the
controversy. I should like to add--and I do so, not to give information
to the House, the members of which quite understand the position, but in
order that it may be plain outside that in what I have now said I speak
not only, so far as I am entitled to speak, for the Unionist Party, but
for Ulster--that in what I have just said I have the concurrence of my
right honorable friend the member for Trinity College [Sir Edward
Carson].
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