There is, however, another point. As we have often said
before, we should like to see unity of command established in Ireland. We should like to see one coherent policy under a, supreme administration for both soldiers and police. If this can be established, and perhaps Sir Nevil Macready's latest movements may be taken as tending in this direction, every peacefully-minded person in Ireland . would have cause to be devoutly thankful. There could then be no question whatever about the authority to whom a person with a grievance, or an alleged grievance, ought to apply ; and there could be no doubt about the ultimate responsibility for whatever acts were coin. mitted. It would then be fair to regard everybody who objected to martial law or resisted its administration as being by that very token a criminal or seditious person.
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