The Queen spoke with much good sense and good feeling, if not with perfect impartiality.
"Lady-John-Russell"
MacCarthy, Desmond
The conclusion was drawn that the Government, while anxious to make a display to the world of impartiality and good will by a spectacular act of clemency, was in reality determined to regard the active support of Sinn Fein as a serious offence in the case of men too little before the eyes of the world for their arrest to lead to widespread comment or indignation.
"The Evolution of Sinn Fein"
Robert Mitchell Henry
Considering that his duties consist in presiding, like the Speaker, with strict impartiality, and in a purely non-partisan supervision of private bill legislation, it is somewhat strange that he should go in and out of office with the cabinet, but in fact one hears no criticism of his conduct on that score, largely, no doubt, because he always takes the Speaker as his model.
"The Government of England (Vol. I)"
A. Lawrence Lowell