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Finally, he suggested that the Terror in Ireland was being

overcome. The offer to Ireland of partnership with" the greatest Empire the world has ever seen in the greatest moment of its history" remained open. Mr. Lloyd George insisted on the absolute necessity of suppressing the murder campaign as a preliminary to new forms of Government. What he said in denunciation of murder was all good and on the right lines, but we cannot think that the Government have given a strong enough lead in creating a public sense of horror against murder. They ought to dwell upon this subject in and out of season, and if they did so in the right way they could not possibly be exposed to the charge critics now bring against them of being indifferent to undisciplined reprisals.

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