If Ulster means to do what it says, then the results are certainly such as no citizen can contemplate without grave concern....

I admit, everyone must admit, that there are circumstances in which a Government is entitled and bound to run this kind of risk.

At the present time I think we all feel that there is a call upon Governments to stiffen rather than to slacken their determination in the presence of threats of dis-obedience or disorder.

I will go further and admit that there is one condition which would justify in my mind His Majesty's Government in running the risk of the forcible coercion of Ulster.

That condition is that they should have received from the people of this country an authority, clear and explicit, to undertake that risk.