It is satisfactory that the Lord Chancellor was frank in
ex- plaining the situation. The Government have been inexplicably backward in telling the British public what they have a right to know—the facts of the Irish situation. As we have pointed out before, Mr. Lynn has three times, and quite without effect, demanded that the public should be informed of the precise relations between Germany and Shm Fein. It is almost in- credible that this necessary information should be withheld while innumerable politicians talk as though Home Rule might at any moment be once more offered to Ireland, and while everybody knows that if a Dublin Parliament were set up it would be a Sinn Fein Parliament. The only real objection raised to the publication of information is that the truth ought also to be told about the military preparations in Ulster, and about the alleged negotiations between Ulster Unionists and the Kaiser. But this is no objection at all. It is a wretched debating manoeuvre. By all means let us have the truth told indifferently and impartially. We would definitely ask, indeed, that the Government should tell all they know about Ulster as well as all they know about the- Sinn Feiners.
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