The proposal, as Redmond had always told them, proved impossible to carry out.
I do not believe that if Redmond had lived this would ever have happened.

His record in the war gave him an authority in Parliament which no other Irishman could possibly claim.

It would have been impossible for Mr.Lloyd George to take such a step without giving him notice; and once that notice came, Redmond could have insisted upon the significance of the report of the Convention's sub-committee on questions of defence.

This committee consisted of two civilians and three soldiers.

Lord Desart, a Unionist, was in the chair; Mr.Powell, K.C., a Unionist (afterwards Irish Solicitor-General and now a judge), was the other civilian; the soldiers were the Duke of Abercorn, an Ulster Covenanter, with Captain Doran and myself, Nationalists from the Sixteenth Division.