A CHANGING IRELAND [To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Mr.
B. J. D. Brooke's letter has not altered my view regarding his incompetence as an Ulster advocate, for he appears to be completely ignorant of Lord Craigavon's state- ment that the Six County area mutt be considered as a " Pro- testant State for a Protestant people."
This is the crux of the whole Ulster problem, for his lordship's plan, as Mr. T. J. Campbell has shown, means in practice the exclusion of Northern Ireland's 400,000 Catholic people from all participation in their Dominion's affairs beyond Parliamentary representation and the payment of their rates and taxes ! Notwithstanding the undemocratic and small- minded procedure with which they have, to contend' in the Belfast House of Commons, the Ulster Nationalists—legally His Majesty's Opposition—have done their best in a difficult position and are very far from being, as Mr. Brooke suggests, merely an obstructive body, for Mr. T. J. Campbell's Parlia- mentary record alone cannot be surpassed in achievement by that of any member of the Craigavon party.—I am, Sir, faithfully yours, HENRY C. WILSON.
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