WIDE POWERS
■+- IRISH PRESIDENT
THE NEW CONSTITUTION
.LONDON, May 1. "The President will have wide powers; but these will be for' the safeguarding of. the people's rights,"., declared the President of the, executive council of the Irish.Free State (Mr. Eamon de Valera) broadcasting from Dublin. . "The■ Constitution will be the free expression: of the. people, of Ireland, and can be changed only by them. "There> are still many injustices to be removed, including, the partition of pur country, British occupation of our ports,: and the exaction by Britain' of money which: we hold is not due; These issues", however, are. now, outside the Constitution, and can be discussed on their merits," he said. . ■ '. V. The second clause of the draft constitution declares that the mational territory consists of the whole of,lreland and the islands in territorial seas, pending a reintegration of national territory without prejudice to;the right of Parliament and the Government to exercise jurisdiction over it. ,
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 103, 3 May 1937, Page 9
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157WIDE POWERS Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 103, 3 May 1937, Page 9
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