10 MAY 1919, Page 2

Wo have already given some examples elsewhere of what the

wiser minds in all classes in America feel about Ireland and the United Kingdom. Here is an extract from a letter just received by us from a very typical American of the present day, a Repub. hem who is yet sympathetic and helpful towards the Adminis- tration :- " As to Ireland. The Sinn Feiners am spectacular, and newspapers write for their Irish contingent, but the great mass of us cannot see how yv,oune can tolerate them as independent so near you. Stop subsid• • them and playing into the hands of the hierarchy, and treat them without fear or favour."

There could hardly be a better statement of the Spectator policy, and it is significant to find it so ably formulated for us in America by an American.