NEWS OF THE WEEK.
IN the presence of such signal events as the triumph of the Washington Conference and the prospect of peace in Ireland, public feeling has been at as high a pitch as it was at the time of the Armistice. In a sense, indeed, we have reached another armistice—an armistice for the whole world, which if it be properly managed may yield an established peace. We have written on these subjects elsewhere, but here, though there is a wilderness of facts to deal with, we must try to reduce to some kind of ordered narrative the principal events of the week. We will begin with Ireland. It will, perhaps, be an aid to clearness if we summarize Irish affairs in their chronological order, leaving the reopening of Parliament to fall into its proper place in the sequence.
