Australia may be annexed by Japan, Canada by the United States, or vice versa; South Africa may spread northwards until it absorbs the Continent, or shrink southwards until it expires on the point of the Cape.

The Superman may, as I am informed, appear on the stage of history at any moment, and make pie of everything.

And not one of these appalling possibilities disturbs Mr Smith in the least.

But he is going to vote against justice for Ireland unless we can promise him that throughout all the aeons, as yet unvouchsafed, and to the last syllable of recorded time, her political destiny is going to be in all details regulated by the Home Rule Bill of 1912.

This is not an intelligent attitude.
Of course the real innuendo is that we in Ireland are burning to levy war on Great Britain, and would welcome any foreign invasion to that end.