15 JUNE 1918, Page 2

There seems to be no chance now, alas ! that

the Lord Mayor of Dublin will make his promised Verney to the United 'States in order to lay Ireland's grievances before President Wilson. The' Lord Mayor was guaranteed his passports by the Foreign Office, but on condition that any papers he took with him to the United States should be subject to examination. If we had had the manage- ment of the business, we would have allowed the Lord Mayor to take any papers he pleased. The great thing was to make sure that he went to Washington. He would then have heard the real truth about the war and about Ireland, and about Ireland's relation to the war, for the first time in his life. We read in a Texas news- paper the following terse comment on the Lord Mayor's proposed visit : " Tnis is a. poor market for such ducks, Lord Mayor—better stay at home." Better for the Lord Mayor of Dublin, no doubt ; but not better for the rest of us.