A most successful team
Lt-General Harry Tuzo from all accounts has done a considerable job in restoring morale among the troops and he and his Commander, Land Forces, Major-General Farrar-Hockley, are, I'd say, a most suc- cessful team. If the military authorities do not present quite such remarkable optimism as does the Ulster government, then this is because they have a different job to do, a different question of security and of con- fidence to solve. Fingers are crossed for a quiet summer. And a quiet summer, like a quiet weekend, in Ulster is most sensible people's idea of a pretty noisy and bloody one, but one in which the situation is con- tained, does not get out of hand.
It is one thing for Mr Faulkner to talk with a politician's charm, or guile, of the possibility of troops being returned to their barracks by the autumn and of being able to call an election sooner than the spring or autumn, 1973, usually envisaged. The military authorities, 1 think, would be very happy if they could • reduce the present strength by a couple of battalions before the winter sets in.
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