Since they've got to do this sort of thing unofficially, to be able to deny it later if any questions are asked, I scared them off easily enough.
"The Instant of Now"
Irving E. Cox, Jr.
The Party settled down unofficially to the advocacy of a form of Home Rule which should ensure to Ireland piecemeal and in detail, by enactment of Parliament, as large an independence as was possessed by the self-governing Dominions, without the formal and definite renunciation of the right of Parliament to decide the extent to which Ireland should be independent.
"The Evolution of Sinn Fein"
Robert Mitchell Henry
"Probably, sir," agreed Major Burton, "since I hear unofficially that Captain Monck has the matter in hand.
"The Lamp in the Desert"
Ethel M. Dell