"WHAT THREE DAY ULTIMATUM?? - THERE WAS NO THREE DAY ULTIMATIM - YOU PLANK"
The Prime Minister then asked again if the delegation was prepared to stand by the Articles of Agreement, as now amended, Oath and all. Only Griffith promised that he would.
The Prime Minister, of course, needed more than this: all must sign they did not, he solemnly promised that he would not even give them time to lay the matter before the Dail: it would be "war within three days," and war more terrible by far than any they had yet experienced. At 7:45 P.M., the meeting broke up. Griffith had agreed to sign; Collins appeared to hesitaiej only over the Oath; Barton, who came to this meeting as a sort of host curiae, had not committed himself at all.
Lloyd George knew all too well that liberal British opinion, let alone that of the Empire and the United States, would have rebelled against any further bloodshed in Ireland. What he put forward on the fifth of December was a gigantic bluff; if the Irish were taken in by it, he would retain his power; if they were not he would have to go."
The Damnable Question (pp 338-339)
Geoge Dangerfield, 1976

That ultimatum, you plank!
I repeat, does anybody believe that Britain would have stayed neutral in the event of any conflict "within three days".
In the absence of a reply about the Spanish Civil War, I will assume (as I suspected from the beginning) that I am in the esteemed presence of a right-arm-raiser.
Keith - the press report was published yesterday - not a child in sight
"You are a charicature"
Nope - I'm not even a caricature.
Jim Carroll