Modern Review August 1924

In the centre of the corridor against the back wall sit the men of the Guard barely visible to members of the Press Gallery. [...] and affords a fine view of the Speaker nearly the whole of the Dail and of the Deputies as they enter the chamber through the doors hard by opening on to the landing at the top of a grand staircase. [...] Elected on the basis of proportional representation specially designed to safeguard the interests of the minorities the Dail on the contrary consists of a number of groups as is the case with the legislatures on the Continent. [...] whatever *tit"DAIL EIREANN : THE IRISH HOUSE OF COMMONS 143! subject of discussion and whatever the mood in which the Deputies carry on the debate he soon discovers that the.average of speaing in view of the youth of the assembly and the inexperience of the legislators is good. [...] there appears the pet thesis of the inventor of the Asian bogy that the blond of the north is the only true human variety of Minns sapiens.