Galway In Days Gone By
1921
Losing hope
Since Mr. Lloyd George’s Coalition Government came to power in 1916, the state of Ireland has gone from bad to worse. Successive efforts towards peace were strangled at the outset. The most Rev. Dr. Clune, Archbishop of Perth, approached nearer to the establishment of a truce than any other intermediary.
Yet in the free atmosphere of Australia, his Grace is to-day constrained to confess that his efforts were thwarted by some power behind the English Prime Minister. Men who had long experience in politics, and of Mr. Lloyd George and his followers in particular, prophesises two years ago that “soon deputations would cease to go from Ireland to Westminster to plead a cause to those who did not want to hear.”
And so it has come to pass. Men of good-will abandoned hope. The continued talk of peace in Ireland probably arises from the will to peace, and has little foundation in fact. Recently, we were informed that a representative deputation had waited on His Eminence Cardinal Logue. Much significance was attached to this visit. We have seen no evidence that anything is likely to come of it.
In these circumstances, Mr. Lloyd George, in his three-column letter to the Bishop of Chelmsford and other Protestant leaders in Great Britain on Tuesday last, had an exceedingly bad case; for while the talked vaguely of peace, he offered only the sword.
“The Morning Post”, the new-found champion of the ex-Liberal, describes his letter as “an important State paper”. As such, it is a singularly sterile document that offers no hope for the future peace of Ireland.
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