NEWS OF THE WEEK
• THE Irish elections have resulted in an undoubted victory for the pro-Treaty forces. In spite of the act of the Dublin coalition in depriving the voters so far as possible of their independence, and in spite of a great deal of local intimida- tion, the wishes of the Irish people as a whole in the South and West have come near enough to the surface to be indisputable. But even before the elections no careful observer doubted that the great majority of the people were sick and tired of violence and ruin and wanted peace on the terms of the Treaty. We cannot honestly say, therefore, that the result of the elections is likely to help Ireland very much. The real point is whether the Provisional. Government will be able to quell or to reconcile the bitter and relentless minority of Republicans. For our part we have little hope. We have given our reasons for despondency elsewhere.
