IRELAND NORTH AND SOUTH
SIR,—Accused by me of indulging in light- hearted venial deception, the Secretary of the Ulster Unionist Party now boasts that : no, he was being deliberately misleading! To refute my account of a pledge given by the English Government to the Northern Ireland hospitals, Mr. Douglas quoted from a speech by the Minister of Health. Naturally, readers
would assume, as I did, that he meant the English Minister. What the Northern Ireland Minister of Health may say is utterly irrelevant to a pledge made at Westminster. That pledge. I repeat, has been dishonoured.
Equally irrelevant is the array of facts con- tained in Mr. Chichester-Clark's letter on the Irish Border. •A short answer cuts down the whole bunch of them. If it is morally right that a large minority of Irish nationalists should be brought into Northern Ireland against their will, then presumably the South would also be justified (if it could) in bringing the Northern Unionists into the Republic against their will. Does Mr. Clark admit this? —Yours faithfully,
YOUR IRISH CORRESPONDENT
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