Sta,—The letter in your issue of February 13th from Mr.
J. L. Barlow is amazing, amusing and illogical. He advocates that Northern Ireland, an integral part of the United Kingdom, be denied representation at Westminster because there is a Parliament in existence here. Instead of rushing into print and advertising his wealth of mis-information on the subject, Mr. Barlow might have consulted the Government of Ireland Act. Northern Ireland did not ask that a separate Parliament be set up, but merely avowed the determination of the vast majority of the people to remain under the Union Jack as a part of the United Kingdom. That this experiment in devolution proved advantageous to the people of Northern Ireland is beside the point. Are Ulster's views on the good government of the United Kingdom as a whole not to be heard? His suggestion smacks more of dictatorship, and amounts to not one man one vote, but one and a half million people no vote. Is that Mr. Barlow's
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