Direct rule
Sir: I wish I shared your satisfaction over the Government's assuming direct rule over Ulster. Some of us who are old enough to remember Munich may see a disquieting parallel between the two cases, with the Loyalists in the role of the Czechs. the Catholic minority in that of the German minority in Czechnslovakia, and the IRA in that of Hitler.
The great difference is that Neville Chamberlain was an old man, with little knowledge of the matter in hand, and none at all with the sort of people he was dealing with. Our present Prime Minister has none of these excuses.
Would it, I wonder, be fanciful to compare Enoch Powell's situation with that of Winston Churchill? Powell certainly has a higher reputation in the country than Churchill had in the thirties, and the two men's relationships with their respective leaders are much the same.
R. L. Travers Sc Artillery Mansions, Westminster. SW'
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