In a very pertinent letter to tho Times of Tuesday,
Mr. Allan F. George pointed out that what we hold to be the true doctrine about the dissolution of Parliament is expressly embodied in the Constitution of the Irish Free State. It is there laid down that the Free State Parliament " shall not be dissolved on the advice of an Executive Council which has ceased to retain the support of a majority of Dail Eireann." The framers of the Irish Constitution certainly showed extraordinary good sense and clear sight in this matter. They put into words what is really the practice here. As Great Britain has no such statute, it is left for Socialists like Mr. Ramsay MacDonald and the editor of the Daily Herald to per- petrate the supreme paradox of asserting that it is competent for a Prime Minister on his sole authority to demand a dissolution, provided only that it is (in his own judgment) " reasonable " !
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