Orders of the Day — Irish Free State (Agreement) Bill.

Part of the debate – in the House of Commons at on 17 February 1922.

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Photo of Mr Thomas Moles Mr Thomas Moles , Belfast Ormeau

The Prime Minister has addressed himself to a charge which he has conjured up out of his own imagination. [HON. MEMBERS: "No, no!"] The charge I make is not the charge he is answering at all. The charge I make is that Sir James Craig, on the one hand, asserts that he had a positive assurance from Ministers co-operating with my right hon. Friend, that only a slight rectification of the frontier was involved, whereas Mr. Collins states that he had the positive assurance of the Prime Minister that large areas were involved. I ask the Prime Minister to give me a straight answer to a straight question. Does he mean a slight rectification, or does he mean large areas?