29 JUNE 1974, Page 4

Understanding Ulster

Sir: I see Lord O'Neill of the Maine 11.as taken over the Notebook, I also rintl, he hopes to explain Ulster to t"" English people. I am afraid the P°°tr man failed in Ulster because he did 1: understand rural or working class u. ster, he seems to think that what ilfsi rural and working class thinking 71 Ulster is what it is because it is 111 Ulster, not understand that the small Ulster farmer is just like the siniaji. English farmer, the working-class 5 ster man is just as unreasonable a, many in the trade unions here hat England. I heard Lord O'Neill in Wh,..aci he calls "his day" say the IRA is Border questions were dead, th9`,,;,,, how much he knew, he did not lowt, that Catholics did as much discriMina.0 ing as Protestants where they were 10 power in councils. Never did a rrla mean so well and fail as badly. rfi R. lAiiis°0

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