We are almost ashamed to think it necessary to say
anything about a particularly silly article on Ireland by Mr. Bernard Slew which was published in the Daily News of/Tuesday. But, unfortunately, we have, in makiing.the British ease clear to the world, to deal not merely with facts but with ignorant mis- understandings and misrepresentations of facts. Mr. Bernard Shaw is a famous man ; his writings are widely circulated in America, and it may be that in the Middle West, and still more in the Far West, people who know little of Great Britain may think that there is something in what he says. In his article he expresses the opinion that Mr. Lloyd George is heading for war with America, and that it is necessary, therefore, for Britain to keep strategic control of Southern Ireland in order that in the event of war Southern Ireland may be useful. Possibly Mr. Shaw intends this to be a joke. You never can tell. But if it is serious, it• is a piece of lamentable mischief- making. H Mr. Shaw had the least sense of public responsibility, he would have refrained from saying it even though he might have believed in the recesses of his own curious mind that there was a danger of American complications in Mr. Lloyd George's conduct. As it is, we are thankful to know that the vast majority of Americans take Mr. Lloyd George's offer to Ireland for what• it actually is—a desperately anxious and earnest attempt to make peace on generous terms,.-and thereby to help to secure the peace of all the world.
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