The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-06-07
WSCOUNT BRYCE GIVES ADVICE ON
 IRISH QUESTION
Says England Is Now Sin cerely Eager to Give Ireland Home Rule
 Measure

London, June 6.--Viscount Bryce, for ' rner British ambassador at Washington
 in statement today in reply to the
 appeal of Mrs. Max Green, daughter of
 the late John E, Redmond on May 24
 indorses her appeal for unity between
 England and Ireland. He urges the British Parliament to hasten the passage of an adequate home rule bill, but at the same time asks the people of Ire land to make it plain to the world that the Irish people stand in line with Brit ain. America, Italy and France in their determination to save the world from the menace of German ruthlessness and tyranny"
 Viscount Bryce says in part
 Up to 1886 there was marked oppo- sition between the majority of Irishmen and the majority of Englishmen. because both great English parties had failed to understand the grounds on which the claims of home rule were based Since isSs sentiment and sympathy for Ire land has been strong in the liberal party ! and today this feeling is no longer con fined to the liberal party
 There is now among the bulk of Eng hshnen of all parties wish, as far as possible. to meet and satisfy the Irish desire for large measure of self-gov- ernment- It is not too much to say that the question of home rule is now a question not between England and Ire- land. but one between two sections of the Irish people.
 Iii bo hot ness i~ ireland to help in the fight against Germany has caused some irri- tation in England, just as the attempt to force compulsory military service on Ire land has reawakened suspicion there. To the Irish nationalists it has seemed to be the exercise of arbitrary authority of one nation over another.
 Many Englishmen do not understand il this attitude because they do not real ize that centuries of conflict have made the Irish people sensitively jealous of their own nationality, and the Irish mind has been so turned upon itself so much occupied with Ireland's grievances and claims that it has not grasped the real meaning of this war. Englshmen are accordingly disappointed that Ireland does not show a stronger desire to join In the conflict against German aggres- sion.
 There need be no fear in Ireland that the English democracy. bewildered though they are by the reckless violence and wild language of the Sim Feiners, have any intention of going back on the home rule policy which Parliament has sol emnly sanctioned. The British people desire with all their hearts to see pros- perity and contentment in Ireland under a home-rule Parliament and they hope that when Ireland sees this she will of her own accord, join in vindicating against Germany those very principles of liberty and nationality upon which she founds her own claims.
 This is not a war which England has undertaken for her own benefit It is war for right and humanity and vic tory Will be won for Ireland as well as the rest of Europe.
 Ireland, on her part, ought to make it plain to the world that the Irish people stand in line with Britain, Amer ica and France, which peoples are giv- ing all that is dearest to them in, their determination to save the world from the menace of German ruthlessness and tyranny. If Ireland loves liberty and justice, how can she fail to feel with them and to wish that her sons should fight beside them in such cause?"