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possible, although I am not at all sure that
the League did not do the right thing for
the language in practically throwing me over.
I did not see this at the time however, for I
did not foresee the utter ^{and [swift?]} debacle of the Win
Parliamentary party and the apothesis of
Sinn Fein. The only reason I had for keeping politics
out was the desire to offend nobody and get help
from every party, which I did. But when Sinn Fein
swallowed up all parties except the Unionists, this was no
longer necessary in the same way, because when all
the country was one party and that a friendly one
we could lose nothing by embracing it, except a
certain amount of Unionist assistance which did
not amount to very much now, though it had