Le Figaro , in a front-page editorial, called for a compromise.

"In one way or another, the British and the Irish have been at war for centuries," the paper said in a front-page editorial.

In a front-page editorial on Friday, the paper complained that the jokes had been unwarranted.

The news arrived so late, however, that some still carried front-page editorials written earlier exhorting the troops to fight on and promising military victory.

"Their activities sometimes take on a clearly illegal character," the newspaper said in a front-page editorial.

The Daily Mail certainly would not,' its front-page editorial said.

Harrison's Reports severely criticized this scene in its film review and in a front-page editorial of the same issue.

"We don't have to agree with them on every issue," Sunday's front-page editorial said.

The Independent, in a front-page editorial, said that "profound errors of judgement are about to be made."

The press wrote front-page editorials and the generals and Congress promised instant victory.