31 MAY 1919, Page 13

THE AMERICAN VISIT TO IRELAND.

[To THE EDITOR or THE " SPECTATOR."] Sia,—In view of the approaching Parliamentary disetts.ion of Irish affairs, whatever otherwise may have led the Prime Minister to grant "_safe conduct" to a party of lteptiblitan propagandists to visit Ireland, it is clear the " madness " theory, held by some, has not in this instance been altogether devoid of method, since, while relieving himself of an invidious task, his action has indisputably served to bring the Irish situation in its true light before the British public, with whom—without further "dallying or temporising" with "Home Rule" and other quackeries—the answer to the sole question at issue, Separation or Union? now rests.—I am,