BOOK REVIEW

Hokitika Guardian, 19 July 1932, Page 6

BOOK REVIEW

OF ENGLAND AND IRELAND

SO ME 0 UTSTANDING FACTS. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) ... London, July is. Lord Middleton has written a bdok entitled:. “Ireland—Dupe or Heroine C It has been written as the result ol the late Lord Balfour’s dying request, in order to remove false impressions ol the relations between England and Ireland. The book is being' published tomorrow. It denounces the welter of mis-gov-ernment, through the centuries of British shortsightedness and Irish perversity.

The writer condemns the antics ot Mr Lloyd George after the 1916 rebellion, which, says Lord Middleton, caused sinister events, discredited the British administration, killed the late John Redmond, arid ruined- many of the Southern Irish Unionists.

The author regrets that few of the great British statesmen have been familiar with Ireland. He ; alsd ' expresses the opinion that if a Royal residence, even one (used only occasionally'for sporting purposes, had keen established in Ireland, it would have enabledfi’the personalities of the present or. the late sovereigns to be felt by; the Irish. ; The author asks wistfully if, the founders of the Irish Free State, who sat by its cradle, will be compelled to follow its hearse.