11 OCTOBER 1913, Page 3

Sir George Hayter Chubb, the President of the Noncon- formist

UnionistAssociation, asks very pertinently in the Times of Monday whether this is "a reference to the Roman Catholic Nationalists of Ireland who, by the help of Dr. Clifford and other Radical Nonconformists, are endeavouring to obtain control over the civic, political, educational, and financial interests of Dr. Clifford's co-religionists in Ulster P " Sir George Hayter Chubb accordingly appeals to Dr. Clifford, if he was not referring to his Irish political friends, to explain why what in his opinion is grievously wrong for an English Roman Catholic to do is quite right if done by an Irish Roman Catholic. But up to Friday the appeal remained unanswered. Inattention is often the highest form of diplomacy.