4 DECEMBER 1920, Page 1

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

pUBLICITY, as we have tried to explain elsewhere, is for immediate purposes much the best weapon in dealing with Poland. We are delighted, therefore, to read in the Daily Chronicle of Thursday that the Government will probably publish important Sinn Fein documents which have been seized during the recent raids in London. We have never been able to understand why the Government have exercised such economy in making known the facts about Ireland. Surely it is obvious that if the Sinn Fein campaign of assassination and sabotage is as widespread and as brutal as we believe it to be and as rumour says it is, and, again, if it be true that the Government have in their possession papers which show that some Sinn Fein leaders are not merely the accomplices of murder, but are the actual authors and directors of it, it would rally the whole Magian to the side of the Government if such facts were made public.