The Irish Bulletin says: Those who drafted King George's reply
to his Holiness knew well that the phrase ` the troubles in Ireland' was a dishonest description of the British war on Irish liberties. The phrase suggested that the troubles in Ireland are troubles among Irish people themselves and of their own seeking. The suggestion is false." These remarks are really a hundred times more sinister than anything that could possibly be discovered in time King's reply, for they amount to a denial of the existence of the patent hostility between the Sinn Feiners and the Ulster loyalists. To declare that there is no such split in Ireland, no division of the population into two camps, is, of course, to suggest that the whole population of Ireland must be treated as though it were homogeneous. If this is what the Sinn Feiners mean, the Conference is doomed. No Englishman in his senses, or having a remnant of justice in his heart, would allow the loyalists of Ulster to be thrown to the wolves.
