24 MARCH 1917, page 3

We Have Dealt Elsewhere With The Irish Problem (last Phase).

But we may lay special emphasis here on a point of groat im- portance. Though we still hold and believe that the incorporating Union of Pitt is the best, and indeed the only,......

Several Correspondents Have Very Kindly Pointed Out A...

successful Spectator " fads" for which we might have taken credit in a recent article, but forgot to do so. Chief of these was the Spectator Experimental Company, which, it is......

We Veritably Believe That Even Now, If The Nationalists Of

all kinds—Parliamentary Nationalists like Mr. Redmond and Mr. Dillon, Sinn Feiners and the representatives of what is still the strongest thing in Ireland, the Roman Church—wore......

In Our Opinion, The Reason Why Mr. Redmond And His

followers do not meet Ulster's demands is because they cannot—because Nationalist Ireland does not want what Mr. Redmond and his colleagues pretend it wants, but something very......

The Thing Which It Would Most Interest Us To Know

was not touched on by Mr. Churchill. He failed to tell us what was meant by the words of the War Council, which presumably he bed a hand in drafting, or which at any rate he......

Lord Milner Ended By A " Wait And See "

appeal for the Govern- ment in regard to their general liquor policy. He expressed the hope that on the road on which they were travelling they would arrive at a system of......

Lord Milner Went On To State That When The Present

supply of malted barley was exhausted next November, but not till then apparently, they would have to decide between using barley for food or for the production of alcohol. This......

The Question Of Bread Versus Beer And Total Prohibition...

the war was raised by the Bishop of Llandaff in the House of Lords on Tuesday, and he was supported by, among others, Lord Balfour of Burleigh, who declared that if the position......

Another Correspondent Points Out That We Took A Lead In

opposing the ridiculous scheme, so characteristically brought forward by the Germans, under which we were to go into a kind of partnership with them in building the Baghdad......

Another Matter In Which We May Take A Legitimate Pride

is our insistence that the question of the South Slays was sure to become the greatest of world problems. We confess that the passage we quote below, written in November, 1908,......

Lord Milner In Reply Declared That There Was No Waste

of foodstuffs in the manufacture of beer going on now or likely to go on in the immediate future. The number of barrels had been reduced from thirty-four millions before the war......

Again, If No Food Is Now Being Destroyed In Order

to manufacture beer, it is amazing that Captain Bathurst should have made the very sensational answer which he gave to Mr. Richardson's question whether it was true that London......

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