Mentions of Lincoln in Other Contexts

[AussieMick]

Ive been reading about the issue of Ireland's fight for independence(1900- 1922) in Fatal Path by Ronan Fanning.

( Some background : WW1 troops needed. The UK was wanting to stay onside with the USA's Irish whilst also many in UK supported Protestants in Ulster. Majority of British wanted Ireland to be subject to conscription.)

Page 178 describes a meeting between the editor of the Manchester Guardian and the UK Prime Minister Lloyd George and his adviser Kerr...

"The demand for Dominion status was really a demand for secession ... it was better to face the matter at once and go through with it. [Abraham] Lincoln had had the same difficulty to meet and had met it by force and he should not shrink from the same course."

Spoken by the Prime Minister or his adviser, its not clear, but they were both in agreement.

I found it a wierd thing to use Lincoln as justification for proposing a course which would lead to chaos, armoured-cars and aeroplanes shooting civilians.