IRELAND NOW THE ONLY WHITE NATION IN SUBJECTION.

New Zealand Tablet, 24 July 1919, Page 35

IRELAND NOW THE ONLY WHITE NATION IN SUBJECTION.

Mr. Erskine Childers, in a letter to the London Times on imaginary dangers about Ireland, says: “Ireland is now the only white nationality in the world (let us leave colored possessions out of the discussion) where the principle of self-determination is not, at least in theory, conceded. It is the last of the ‘problems’ which were left in 1914, and it is incomparably the simplest. It is simplicity itself compared with those resulting from the collapse of Russia, Austria, and Germany, where the intermixture of races speaking different tongues, and the absence of clearly defined or maritime boundaries do cause difficulties of real complexity. “Nevertheless, Great Britain is fixing and guaranteeing the boundaries of these new States, of which so little is known here that the Prime Minister can joke in Parliament about his ignorance till yesterday of the position on the map of one of the numerous ‘Ulsters.’ “Is she in the same breath to decline to deal with Ireland, whose uninterrupted historical identity . and boundaries nobody can mistake—lreland, the 'last -unliberated white community on the face of the globe?”