PRESS OPINIONS

Evening Post, Volume CIII, Issue 141, 17 June 1922, Page 5

PRESS OPINIONS

COMMENTS IN LONDON

.VARYING OPINIONS OF THE DRAFT. 1 LONDON, 16th June. # The Daily News says: ' 'No one who is honestly willing to see autonomy grantfed to Ireland can well quarrel with the Constitution. Conversely, those who do so must at heart be opposed to the granting of any real freedom to Ireland. The paper doubts the wisdom of the referendum, and initiative provisions. The Daily Chronicle regards the elective Ministers as a departure from Parliamentary practice, and premature in a country which has not yet pet the older method into working order. The paper declares that the safeguards for Protestants stand on too thin ground. / The Senate is practically.merely an advisory body, and only able to postpone legislation .i 270 days. The Chronicle points out that the Dail Eireann being elected to-day may considerably amend the draft. The Westminster Gazette states: "The Constitution conforms to the Treaty, and that is all we want to know. Has the Treaty made us right with Ireland and the rest of the world? If she was, worse governed under -the old than under the new regime that is her affair."