17 MAY 1919, Page 1

Another article in the paper is entitled " Irish-American Envoys

Making Pro, ress." Among therub-headings we read : " News comes from Paris that Lloyd George at the instigation of Colonel House will discuss the question of Ireland's representa- tion at the Peace Conference with the three representatives of , the Irish race in America who are now in France " ; "They have the advantage of knowing in advance ths wily Welshman's trick of tempori ing " ; "The great social unrest in England itself helpful to 'Mend." The "splendid meeting in the Lexington Theatre" sent a cabl gram to the Irish-American delegates conveying the assurance that " Millions of our race in America will support demand of the people of Ireland for an Irish Republic." All this, as we have said, was published in the Gaelic American, of April 26th. The Prime Minister, unless he was sublimely ignorant, which we cannot believe, must have fully understood the intentions of the Irish.American delegates long before they came. The word " temporizing " is well chosen, but Mr. Lloyd George has been temporizing too the detriment of his authority, and thus to the detriment of the Empire.