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A.P.H.'S BILL OF DIVORCEMENT

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the "Irish Independent" wittily comments, it seems that while he was tearing up the Constitu- tion as a British-made document he was carefully preserving the pieces and has now pasted them together in a new patchwork pat- tern of his own design. It is not a document that need unduly disturb British politicians. True, there is nothing in it about the King, Great Britain, or the Bri- tish Commonwealth of Nations. It is, as far as mere words go, a The flood of congratulations Constitution for an independent that descended on Mr. A. P. républic. But does that, for Herbert after the passage of his practical purposes, apart from Divorce Bill through the House the niceties of constitutional of Commons on Friday was well law, alter the present position? earned. In a few months, the Whatever the constitutional famous Punch humourist had significance of the change in the succeeded in doing what other law of the British Common- enthusiasts, with obviously less wealth of Nations, it should not determination, had been at-ibe beyond the digestive powers tempting for the last 25 years of that amorphous body to as- And the more credit is due be- similate a domestic republic, if cause Mr. Herbert had first to that is what a majority of its overcome the handicap of his re-people insists on having. We putation as a humourist. Mem

shall never coerce the Free State bers hung on his words for the to submitting to a more oner- sally and not for the sense and ous status;. we might as well it was sometime before he con-make the best of it and recog- vinced the House that he was nise that the preservation and the Member for Oxford Univer-encouragement of the spirit of sity and not one of Mr. Punch's the Commonwealth in external Bright Young People.

relations are all we need concern Even so, such was the bitter- ourselves with. Actually Mr. De ness of the minority opposition, Valera's Constitution is a con- that the Bill was talked out on servative rather than a radical the last allotted day and the document. It is more interest- measure would not now be pro- ing for what it restores than for ceeding to the House of Lords what it destroys. The Gover- for discussion but for the ges-nor General has

gone, but he ture of Mr. Baldwin in interven comes back again as the Presi- ing from preventing the Bill dent of Eire. One by one from lapsing. For this conces- sion, people who have been in the Governor General's shadowy pow- ers as the King's representative Bill rightful liberation from un-

were stripped from him; now he happiness are undoubtedly very is invested with not inconsider- grateful and only that section of able powers as First Citizen and the public which sincerely holds the chosen of the people. The that divorce is never permissible Senate was abolished, but re- will criticise the Government. turns with all the powers of re- The sentiment of the majority vision and delay that were the is that since divorce is recognis-cause of its going. A curious ed in Britain by law, the law formula had been invented for ought to be made as wise and the removal of judges; the old reasonable as possible. The Bill procedure of resolution of both does not render divorce easier. Houses is restored. The old Con- It provides, indeed, that no peti- stitution contained provision for tion shall be presented within a referendum, which was abolish- the first years of marriage. But, ed, to be now restored. Univer- after that period, desertion for sity representation in the Dail three years and incurable, in- was abolished; it is transferred sanity are admitted as causes.to the Senate. The Privy Coun- To placate critics, habitual cil in Ireland disappeared with drunkenness and imprisonment the Viceroy and the rule of for life (both recommended as Dublin Castle; it comes back as is no saw-mill by-product. reasons for divorce by the Royal the President's Council of State. Its fibres are especially ground from Commission of 1912) have been There is a change of name. In- selected woods from northern forests, dropped from the Bill, and the stead of Saorstat Eireann we are sponsors finally produced à mea- to have Eire, although Saorstat Nor is INSULITE “just another wall- sure in which the Government Eireann was the Irish for "Irish board." It is the pioneer of all wood had no need to be afraid to show Republic," - acccording to the re-

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Ulster's right of choice the new

If reasonable amendment of Constitution contents itself with the divorce law should be per-partition “pending the reintegra- Bistently thwarted, the whole tion of the national territory,” some respect in which the mar-which amounts to the same riage state is held and the con-thing.