LLOYD GEORGE ON REPRISALS.

New Zealand Tablet, 31 March 1921, Page 39

LLOYD GEORGE ON REPRISALS.

the Peace with Ireland Council, which comprises politicians of all British parties, at a recent meeting of its Executive Committee adopted a resolution condemning the policy" of official reprisals adopted by the British Gox eminent in Ireland and regarding such a policy as disgraceful to the British nation” and disastrous to the future prospect of peace, since it is certain that such a policy must stimulate the bitterest feelings in Ireland. Lloyd George is quoted against himself by the reproduction of a statement lie made when British military commanders in South Africa adopted the pohey of reprisals in the Boer War twenty years ao-o. At that time Mr. Lloyd. George said— • "In regard to military reprisals nothin,/ A gained hg making a man desperate, it is a sill,/, foolish, iniquitaus no],eg to burn his farm, ruin his property, and bring his family to the grave. It is not a military question at all ; it is a question of understanding the ordinary influences that govern human nature.”— Lloyd George, House of Commons, December 15, 1900.