On Thursday, when we go to press, we read in
the Daily Chronicle, on the authority of the well-informed "A. P. N.," that though Mr. Griffith, who is conferring with the Government in London, has given satisfactory assurances that the oath of allegiance to the Crown will be taken the draft Constitution is still in conflict with the Treaty. "A. P. N." says that the Irish leaders are pressing for more than the Treaty allows. Their proposals are unsatisfactory with regard to the position of the Governor-General, the appeal to the Privy Council and the character of the Irish representatives to be sent to foreign countries. Obviously the representatives of the Free State abroad must be Consuls or Agents, not AnibassadOrs or Ministers. It had been made as clear as anything could be that the Constitu tion was to be based on the Canadian model, and now wo are informed that it is more like the Swiss Constitution
