Tho papers of Thursday published some correspondence between Mr. Chamberlain
and Lord Carson. It will be remem- bered that Mr. Chamberlain in a recent letter to Mr. Ronald McNeill said that when an All-Ireland Parliament was proposed at the Convention in January, 1918, no Unionist leader made any protest. Sir James Craig at once pointed out that, on the contrary, he and Lord Carson, who were then members of the Government., resigned on the spot. It was certainly most unfortunate that after this correction had been made Mr. Cham- berlain's letter to Mr. McNeill should have been circulated in printed form at the Unionist Conference at Liverpool. Lord Carson complained of this and Mr. Chamberlain, in his reply, apologized for his lapse of memory and explained that his letter to Mr. McNeill had been printed before Sir James Craig had made his correction. He argued, however, that the correction made no difference to his argument. We are bound to say that it seems to us that the principal point in the whole of Mr. Chamberlain's argument was just this very fact about which he happened to be wrong.
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