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NEWS OF THE WEEK.

APLENTIFUL shower of correspondence between Mr. Lloyd George and Mr. De Valera has followed the drought in the negotiations which we recorded last week. Explicitly, Mr. De Valera has steadily refused to make the repudiation of independence and sovereignty which the Government regard as an indispensable condition of a conference. Literally viewed, therefore, the situation is black indeed. For our part, however, we feel strongly that a conference ought to be held in any case. Now that the road has been followed so far, there is much less danger in going on than in going back. We have explained our reasons for thinking this in out first leading article. We must now give a brief summary of the correspondence.

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