7 MAY 1921, Page 11

AMERICA AND IRELAND.

[To THE EDITOR OF TEE " SPECTATOR.")

Suz,—Under separate cover I am sending you a copy of the Irish World, published in New York and widely distributed all over the United States, in parts in which there are " Irish- Americans." In one New England city, the population of which is a little over 100,000, seventy-five copies are sold. It seems to me that there ought to be some contradiction of the wicked lie which appears (in pictorial form) on the first page.—I am,

[The cartoon depicts John Bull, with a cudgel labelled " Black and Tan " in his hand, preventing American relief from being distributed to starving Irish women and children. —En. Spectator.]