We give below a precis of the Parliamentary proceedings connected
with Mr. Lloyd George's mediation in Irish affairs. Here we can only say, as we said last week, that we trust a miracle will take place, and that he may be able to bring all parties together. Meanwhile it is evident that harm, not good, has been done by the efforts of certain Lobby correspondents to be the first to announce that everything is settled satisfactorily. All we really know is that Mr. Lloyd George has a very hard job in front of him. Probably the crux of that job will turn out to be the fact that the bulk of the men with whom he is negotiating, though acting in good faith, do not in the least know how things stand at the present moment. They cannot even dis- tinguish between followers and opponents. The fog of war is nothing to the fog of revolution.
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