In deference to representations that have been made to me from several quarters of this House, for which I have the greatest respect, that the motion as it stands might be liable to misunderstanding and might offend certain susceptibilities, which I have not the least intention of doing, I propose, with your permission, to withdraw it. I might be allowed to say, in order to allay any disappointment on the part of some Senators who perhaps were looking forward to my delivering an impassioned harangue against the Irish language and the Irish movement, that I desire to make it clear that I intended doing nothing of the kind, that far from attacking them I believe that both the Irish movement and the Irish language are entitled to the greatest respect. Beyond that I say nothing.