He had no distrust of Irish soldiers in ordinary regiments; no professional soldier ever had.

But he had a deep distrust of a purely Irish military organization under Irish control.

At the back of Lord Kitchener's mind was the determination "I will not arm enemies." This was the very negation and the antithesis of the second view, which was Redmond's.
Redmond's aim was to win the war, no less than Lord Kitchener's.

But if Lord Kitchener realized more clearly than other men in power how far-reaching would be the need for troops, Redmond realized also far more than the men in power how vital would be the need for America.

He saw from the first, knowing the English-speaking world far more widely than perhaps any member of the Government, that the Irish trouble could not limit its influence to Ireland only.