Dissatisfied
Sir: The British and Irish Governments may feel quite satisfied with the security situation in Northern Ireland now, and particularly in South Armagh, with their hot-line rubbish, but 1 doubt if the people of Northern Ireland are, and I certainly am far from it.
• So long as the border is open, gangs of armed men can escape at night across a hedge or a ditch, or even the other side of a street. Why not, then, close the border, and keep it closed? And if there is part of a Village which is in the Republic, then why not give the Republic the whole village, and let it go at that? If there should be a few Protestants living in it, then they could be approached decently, and afterwards enmPensated. The point is to shut up shop. And do not come back with the excuse that it is too long, or too Winding: borders have been closed effectively enough in Europe by the Germans and the Russians, so why not take a leaf out of their book?
If it be replied that we don't want that sort of thing in these islands, this only proves the feeble-mindedness of those who give that answer. And meanwhile the murders go on, and the IRA's declaration to the effect that they will give up sectarian murders if the Protestant parliamentary organisations will do the Same is just a clever bit of propaganda to make it seem that it is the Protestants who are in the wrong. Frankly, I think the answer is to separate the two communities, but you would probably need a Cromwell to have the guts to take such a decision. No doubt the SDLP will yammer, but the SDLP will Yarnmer anyway, so what's the difference.
Ewart Milne 46 De Parys Avenue, Bedford
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