NEWS OF THE WEEK
IONG continued strain, and anxiety for the safety A of his Governmenti,are no doubt largely responsible for Mr. Cosgrave's denunciation of the Boundary Com- mission and his injurious remarks about Mr. Justice Feetham's impartiality. Time, besides bringing its revenges, brings its ironies, and we can call to mind no greater political irony than the present situation in Ireland. It was Mr. Cosgrave who insisted upon the appointment of the Boundary Commission, binding him- self to accept its decisions, and it was in order to satisfy ,tlie -feelings of the Tree State that -Mr. Ramsay Mac- Donald's Government " implemented " the Treaty in order to make it possible to appoint the Commission although Northern Ireland Would have no part or lot in it. Nobody outside the Free State really believed that a Commission appointed over the head of the Northern GOvernnient could solve the problem. It was generally, yetognised that satisfaction could come only through -voluntary agreement. Yet, by another curious irony, the ,North -is now more favourably disposed than the Free State "towards the alleged Award of- the- Commission.
