The Round Table for June (Macmillan, 58. net.) deals ably
and more or less dispassionately with the problems of the time —Ireland, the Imperial Conference, America and the League, Reparation from Germany, industrial unrest at home, and the new constitution in India—besides giving the usual quarterly letters from the Dominions. With regard to Ireland, it proposes that both the North and the South should be given "colonial autonomy," despite all the difficulties raised by separate Customs and a separate Income Tax, so that Irishmen may know "what it is to control everything within the limits of their own territory, even though in doing so they damage not only them- selves but their neighbours." This sanguine writer, never- theless, draws the line at a separate Irish Navy, though Sinn Fein, of course, demands that as well. An American contributor, writing on "The United States and the Old World," emphasizes the American's distrust of Europe. "In statecraft the American is afraid the wily European and the even more wily Oriental is going to `slip something over on him.'" He maintains that the Sinn Fein agitation in America "will not prevail against the solid bases of Anglo-American friendship." He regrets that Mr. Lloyd George has had dealings with the Bolsheviks. He discusses other "points of minor friction," and concludes that the obstacles may be overcome with goodwill. The article on Reparation suggests that even now Germany cannot pay, and it draws a somewhat illusory parallel between Prussia after Jena and Germany after Versailles. An Anglo-Indian correspondent draws a flattering picture of the new Indian Legislature at work, and declares that the Moderates are gaining strength while Mr. Gandhi's absurd non-co-operation agitation is "riven with dissension."
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