11 MAY 1918, Page 10

THE PRIME MINISTER'S PLEDGE.

[To THE EDITOR OF TEE" SPECTATOR."] SIR,—" It is no use mincing words."—(The Prime Minister, on Ireland.)

"There is no use in mincing words," I heard a statesman cry,— I do not quite agree with that, and here's the reason 'why: Digestion's laws are stubborn things, and nobody can cheat them— A Minister must mince his words, because he's got to eat them.