AN AMERICAN RESOLUTION.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LVI, Issue 17112, 18 March 1919, Page 9

AN AMERICAN RESOLUTION.

Sir,—" Student," according to his title, should know that a tu quooue retort is the worst and weakest of all arguments. If a nation should not join in the alleviation of distress or discontent because of its own shortcomings, either at home or abroad, then there is not a nation under the sun entitled to perform so humanitarian a task. Again, blink the matter how we may, the Irish question is more than a domestic concern; this upon authorities to high as Mr. Lloyd George the London Times, the latter of which wrote a few weeks ago as follows " When will people realise that Ireland is not a question of domestic politics only, but a permanent disturber of the compass of our foreign and colonial policy, too." Dr. Russell Wakefield. Bishop of Birmingham, who at the end of last year returned after a lorg visit to tho United States, said: " Wherever I went 1 encountered the ghost of Ireland in some form or another." And the bishop added . " Friendship between the United States and England cannot fce cemented until tho Irish question is settled." Justitia.