WAITING OVER THREE YEARS,

Auckland Star, Volume XLIX, Issue 82, 6 April 1918, Page 13

WAITING OVER THREE YEARS,

il . f It would be difficult to find a prece- * dent for the almost world-wide desire * for the settlement of the Irish question. - (says the London "Daily Chronicle"). It animates the Empire, the United States, France, Italy, every nation with ■ which our fortunes are linked. Yet ' the late Lord Selborne pictured Home 1 Rule as sending a shudder through the f world. Sir James Lacaita, the Anglicised Italian scholar and statesman, had assured him, that the measure, if | passed, would lead to an agitation for c ' the dismemberment of Italy, in Sicily o first, and afterwards, not improbably in r all the provinces which were formerly t independent States! A high authority c tells us that hut for the Irish trouble . America would have been at our side in .. the war two years ago. Whatever truth ,j there may be in the saying, it will be c read with interest at the front and in t where Americans and Britons are meeting. They are the very best of v friends, says an English officer, but hum- , r our will out, on both sides. "Hullo, my i_ coffee's cold," said a handsome young c Yankee as he picked up his cup. " Well, c lad, it's been waiting over three years d for you," retorted, a Tommy with a iC twinkle. The American took* it like * sportsman, adds the narrator.