The Government have decided to appoint a special Assistant Under-Secretary
for North-East Ulster. This move is welcome as a new declaration on the part of the Government that the Protestant and Unionist block has as good a right to self- determination as the South and West of Ireland. It is also a pledge that the Government mean to stand by their intention of allowing North-East Ulster to have its own government under any form of Home Rule. The announcement is also made that the Government will allow " well-disposed citizens '' anywhere in Ireland to arm themselves in order to help the police in keeping order. This announcement, of course, has been hailed in the South and West with an outburst of abuse. It is said that the well-disposed citizens will be all Ulstermen, and that Ireland is being already partitioned. The Liberal Press in this country pretends that the Government want to re-arm the Ulster Volunteers in order to commit acts of aggression against Roman Catholics.
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