6 JULY 1918, Page 20

MR. LLOYD GEORGE'S PLEDGES. {To THE EDITOR or THE "

SPECTATOR."1 Sia,—Your heading week by week about Mr. Lloyd George's Pledges is curious, as he said a much stronger thing in the same debate,

* "Peccavi" appeared in Punch of May 18th, 1844. and it is odd you don't make the best point. Here are his words :—

" It is indefensible that you should ask- young men of eighteen and a half, married men of thirty-five to forty, and even up to fifty, in England, Scotland and Wales—that you should compel them to fight, &c., while young men of twenty to twenty-five in Ireland are under no obligation to take up arms for a cause which is just as much theirs as yours. It is not merely illogical, it is

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