Sta, 1 --I have from time to time been much interested in
articles in The Spectator on Irish affairs; and was so in the recent one, Six and Twenty- Six. I do not, however, remember seeing in any of them any good reasons definitely stated why Northern Ireland and Eire should be united under one Government. The great disadvantages of this for certain interests are obvious. I cannot see (I write as an outsider) why the whole of Ireland should be one State. In the Scandinavian peninsula there-are two separate States. They have tried union, and they have found separation preferable. In the Netherlands there are the two separate States of Holland and Belgium. They also have experienced being joined together, and the union did not work well. And in the Iberian peninsula there are the two separate States of Spain and Portugal. Why should Ireland not be divided between two States ?—Yours faithfully, J. L. AINSLIE. South bank, Bowden, Roxburghshire.
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