Post #272

Charles Trevelyan, the key figure in the British government, had foreshadowed the deadly policy in a letter to the “Morning Post”, after a trip to Ireland, where he heartily agreed with the sentiment that there were at least a million or two people too many in the benighted land and that the eight million could not possibly survive there. “Protestant and Catholic will freely fall and the land will be for the survivors.” Shortly after, he was in charge of a policy that brought that situation about.