Mr. Lloyd George went on to declare that his colleagues
and he tegarded the removal of the misunderstanding with Ireland as a war measure of the first importance. So do we, and so must every sane man in the country. All we desire is that whatever is done in the case of Ireland shall be done, not as a piece of political manceuvring or leger domain, but in order to provide a real solution of the problem. The idea of curing one set of ills in Ireland by creating another is madness. The subject, however, is tco big to be treated in a paragraph, and must be left over for further consider-
ation. We will only • say here that if the Natio • silicas and the Sinn Feiners, who now so largely control the Nationalists, can agree with the men of North-East Ulster upon a common policy, it would be an act of criminal lunacy for any English politician to forbid the banns. But the agreement must be a real one. It is no good to pretend that there is agreement if none has taken place.
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