15 MAY 1971, Page 9

New dawn? •

He puts on a brave front, suggesting that things have become much better during the past few weeks, that Paisley and the Paisleyites are less of a problem. that William Craig and the hard-line right- wingers within the Unionist party are rapidly losing ground, that he is in full accord with the measures adopted by the GOC, Lt-Gen Harry Tuzo, and that there arc no problems between him and Mr Maudling and Lord Carrington either. In this roseate new dawn.. the Civil Rights people have faded away too and here at least there is very wide agreement. Last Saturday week Bernadette Oc■ lin addressed a Civil Rights meeting in Londonderry. About eighty people turned up where, at the same meeting the previous Year three thousand had Waited upon her words. 'The fact is, there's no right they have not got' is the official view.