ABSTRACT
The period between the Reform Act of 1832 and government has got itself into a serious difficulty, through harshness or folly, or sheer lack of imagination, and is determined, regardless of some obvious error, to have its way in despite of the general condemnation it has earned. There are three instances of this last situation to which he should like to refer. In 1923, Mr. Bridgeman, was Home Secretary, and in that capacity arrested, under the Restoration of Order in Ireland Act a large number of Irish extremists then resident in this country, and shipped them over to Ireland, where the Cosgrave Government put them into internment camps.
