Also on Monday in the House of Commons Mr. Dillon
made a speech even more mischievous than that by Mr. Churchill. He read out to the House a document which has been published broadcast in the German newspapers. It purported to be .a private letter written by Lord Ilardinge to Sir George Buchanan, British Ambassador at Petrograd. If it was authentic, said Mr. Dillon, Lord Hardinge ought to quit the Foreign Office. We are not going to quote oh summarize the letter, for we hold that it was a gross outrage for a Member of Parliament to read it out and we are amazed that the Censor did not prevent its appearance in any British paper. We go, however, further back than that. -Why did not whoever was in charge of the House make an instant protest against the reading out of a private letter by Mr. Dillon ? He should have asked him the moment he began to read whether he had Lord Hardinge's consent, and if he had not, the protest should at once have been made.
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