21 JULY 1917, Page 2

On Friday week when the debate was tontinuedia the Commons

1.1r. Asquith ridieukel, the idea of asking two. or three Judges to decide whether this or that statesman, soldier, or sailor had acted upon a intstakenjudgment or policy. He depleted the partiplayed

by &peed newepapers—" playwrights of the.gutter

the publication of the Report, and surely every decent person will agree with Mr. Asquith's words.- His Calliare of the shrieking brotherhood of the Press was not at all too strong, if strong enough. But we cannot help sayingthatiall through Hie debate there were 'too-many signs that the House of Commons isierrified of the Press, aixl issfalling into the bad. habitof speaking-with one eye turned speculatively upon the piobable headlines of the next morning.