THE IRISH MUDDLE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 46, Issue 14099, 16 April 1920, Page 4

THE IRISH MUDDLE.

The bunch of politicians at Home \\Tio are, out of courtesy, termed a i Cabinet, have again .plpoiwn. that .they possess neither the ribiiity not the Ctiur'fcpfcta grapple firmly..,„wi|h., ..internal problems. After the shocking mess Mr Lloyd George’ has made' '6£ ' the Peace Treaty- by continually giving concessions to the Hun.s, arid in other ways frittering away the fruits 'of the Allies’ victory, it is, no wqncfcr that they .have ?muddled in ‘ matters in . Ireland. 'For days past the Government has announce)] that the hunger-strikers in prison in Ireland would not be allowed by their conduct to cause the Government to change its policy in regard to these men. Over and over again Mr Bonar Law reiterated the Government’s' intention to remain firm, and that if the hunger strikers died, well, that could not be helped; the Government could not prevent: them committing deliberate suicide. After all tho Government’s talk of being firm with these hunger-strikers, we have a most ignominious climb-down oil the part of the British Cabinet, which has decided to reelase the men, for that is really what the Government’s proposal aim olints to. Yet we have a few silly individuals proclaiming every now and again that Mr Lloyd George is a statesman, and that the present Cabinet at Home .is a ‘ 'lifovernment of all tho talents.”