23 DECEMBER 1922, page 2

We Wish That We- Could Record That With The Closing

of the year the Irish Free State was making definite progress in the re-establishment of law and order and that its opponents were being defeated. Unfortunately the facts seem......

Mr. Cosgrove Shows The True Spirit Of Democracy—. A Spirit

with which the Spectator fully sympathizes— when he declares that the doctrine of Mr. De Valera and his supporters can be described as " the people have no right to do wrong."......

On Friday, December 15th, Parliament Was Prorogued. The...

showed that the whole programme which was contained in the King's speech when Parlia- ment met on November 23rd has been accomplished. The items were (1) giving ,effect to the......

Mr. Cosgrove, The President Of The Free State, Contri- Buted

a very remarkable article to the Daily Express of Thursday. He begins by pointing out that the present deplorable condition of Ireland is due to the fact that Mr. De Valera has......

As We Pointed Out Last Week, There Is A Whole

world of difference between such reprisals as these and the very proper corporate punishment which the British Govern- ment visited upon certain districts—though that punish-......

We May Add Here That The Last British Troops Left

the Free State during the past week. There seems to be no doubt that at their departure the Dublin crowd showed regret, and that voices in the crowd even declared that they......

Mr. Cosgrove Goes On To Defend The Recent Action Of

himself and his colleagues in detail, but, though we hold that he makes out a perfectly good case for the execution of Childers (provided that Childers was compos limas) and......

We Had Not Only Backed The Wrong Horse In Greece,

but we had backed it in a way so devious and reckless that when the double clad* came, in the rout of the Greek troops and in the dismissal of Mr. Lloyd George, first by the......